#Act4 Wildlife Circuses with wild animals: veterinarians contest the ambiguous position of their Bar Council. France: 62 veterinarians go up against the presence of animals in circuses 5 May 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Environment Secretary Michael Gove has today (1 May) announced a new Bill to ban the use of wild animals in travelling circuses. UK Government bans wild animals in circuses 1 May 2019
#Act4 Wildlife From 2022 the granting of these grants will be conditioned to a cessation in the use of wild animals The Spanish Ministry of Culture to end subsidies for circuses with animals by 2022 25 April 2019 AAP
#Act4 Wildlife Animal advocates congratulate the city of Madrid for banning wild animals from circuses Circuses with wild animals banned from the Madrid Capital Region 27 March 2019
#Act4 Wildlife In particular, wild animals in circuses should be a thing of the past, with an increasing number of organisations calling for a ban at EU level. EU leaders should work harder to protect wild animals (and citizens) 3 March 2019 AAP
#Act4 Wildlife The use of wild animals in travelling circuses generates strongly held opinions and a considerable degree of public and political interest. Summary of Welsh public consultation on wild animals in travelling circuses is available 24 January 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Animal rights group PETA US has become a shareholder in Tui as it steps up a campaign against the travel group selling tickets to SeaWorld marine parks. Tui travel group under pressure to stop selling SeaWorld tickets 18 January 2019
#Act4 Wildlife "An important act, due but not taken for granted" LAV president Felicetti shares his views on the future of circus animals in Italy 9 January 2019 LAV
#Act4 Wildlife On Wednesday 4 July in Osnabrück an elephant of the Circus Krone fell over the spectator area during a performance. Elephant nearly crushes audience in Krone Circus 9 July 2018
#Act4 Wildlife After years of campaigning against circuses with animals, on 25 May 2018 the Slovak Parliament adopted a landmark amendment to the Veterinary Act introducing an ban on the use of wild animals in circuses. SLOBODA ZVIERAT: Slovakia bans wild animals in circuses and introduces mandatory microchipping for dogs 4 June 2018 Sloboda Zvierat
#Act4 Wildlife Animal Defenders International (ADI) has welcomed the decision by Defra (UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) to refuse big cat circus trainer Thomas Chipperfield a licence to perform in England. DEFRA to refuse a big cat circus trainer a licence 19 April 2018