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Stop Circus Suffering is ADI's global campaign against the use of animals in circuses.ADI, through country-specific investigations, has contributed to the passing of animal rights laws, with Bolivia passing a law to ban both wild and domestic animal acts in all circuses; [1] [2] and similar legislation under consideration in Colombia and Peru.
In May 2022, the circus announced it would resume touring in 2023 without the use of animals. The keeping of cetaceans in captivity for entertainment is also legal. California has proposed legislation to ban the captive display of orcas, and the state of Washington has proposed banning the captivity of any cetacean for entertainment. [64]
In 2009, Bolivia became the first country to ban all animal use in circuses. [67] 2009 After a similar 1991 ban in the Canary Islands, the Catalan Parliament adopted a ban on bullfighting in Catalonia in December 2009, effective January 2012. However, it was overturned by the Spanish Constitutional Court in October 2016.
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Wild animals had been a feature of travelling circuses in the United Kingdom since the birth of the modern circus. [1] Wild animals were hunted and captured in the colonies on an increasing scale in the second half of the nineteenth century with high mortality rates for the animals [1] Some researchers have concluded that the species of non-domesticated animals commonly kept in circuses appear ...
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