For most of its 146-year run, from 1871 to 2017, animals pretty much defined the circus, but their use became increasingly unpopular in recent years. When my high school’s physics class took a field ...

When I was a child back in Colombia I used to go to the circus every New Year’s Eve with my parents. It was always a special moment. I remember the lights, the clowns, the acrobats and the beautiful ...

BAT held demonstrations from January 21 to 25 on Great North Road, where activists encouraged motorists to “hoot for animal ...

Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian import and America’s most profitable circus, is animal-free but full of animalized human performers. Courtesy: Cirque du Soleil In 1917, the publication of a posthumous ...

A German circus which banned the use of live animals in its acts, has welcomed them back into the ring three decades later, this time as hollograms. Founded in 1976 Circus Roncalli was one of the ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Garish signs promoting the circus have sprung up along Malcomson St in North Mackay, and along with them, a ...

Catalonia looks set to become the first Spanish region to ban circus acts which use live animals. Many towns there already outlaw the practice, as do dozens of others elsewhere in Spain. From next ...

MSPs take evidence on the budget from the Scottish Fiscal Commission Labour MSP Monica Lennon leads a debate on alcohol and drug-related deaths MSPs quiz environment, climate change and land reform ...

Every now and again I learn of a formal move to make the lives of animals better, and none could be more needed and timely than a new pending bill that is geared to ban wild animals in traveling ...

Legal Affairs Minister Annabelle Ewing rises to call for approval of the Criminal Legal Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 [draft], external. The environment secretary ...