Circus Animals

The Big Top, elephants and the blizzard: Hampton Roads says goodbye to the Ringling circus The circus is coming to town. For the last time. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s circus announced in January it’s packing up the big top after 146 years. Times have changed, the company said. Animal activists succeeded in getting […]

Just a reminder that the Ordinance Committee of the Cambridge, MA City Council is holding a public hearing this Thursday, Dec. 17 at 2:00PM to discuss a proposed exotic animal ordinance (see details below).  The hearing will be held in the Sullivan Chamber at Cambridge City Hall (795 Massachusetts Avenue).  If anyone in the local […]

Action Alert: Proposed exotic animal ban in Cambridge, MA

On December 17, 2015, the Ordinance Committee of the Cambridge City Council will hold a public hearing on an ordinance to prohibit the use of wild and exotic animals in traveling shows and circuses.  If passed, this ordinance would make it unlawful to “conduct, sponsor, walk, exhibit or operate a traveling show or circus that […]