Wild animals suffer in circuses and shows across Asia. Learn how entertainment fuels cruelty – and how you can help stop it.

Objecting to wild animals being used for entertainment in a circus, animal rights activists gathered in peaceful protest outside the McLaren Circus in Zandvlei on its first scheduled night of ...

The 30-year circus veteran says he treats his tigers like his children. "With animal trainers you've got good and bad like in any profession," he says.

The circus is coming to Charlottetown on Thursday, but animal acts won't be part of it. The Animal Welfare Act, passed last year by the P.E.I. government, says circuses must apply for a licence ...

A Superior Court Justice has ruled in favour of the Shrine Circus, saying that Newmarket town council was wrong on several fronts in refusing an application for performing animals at the show ...

Earlier this year, a circus bear attacked its trainer in front of screaming children after he forcefully made the animal perform. The roller-skating bear, a female called Dzhema, was being forced ...

When Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey folds its circus tents in May, about 400 people will be out of a job. So will dozens of animals. The show’s famous elephants are already retired, now ...

Since the humble start of the Zerbini Family Circus in Paris, France, in 1763 ten generations of Zerbinis have travelled the world sharing their talents with circus audiences on three continents ...

Around 140 circus trucks, with animal handlers on board, crawled around the capital bearing banners reading "A circus without animals is not a circus" and "50 000 jobs under threat" and sounding ...

Join the conversation Animal rights activists protest outside the Shrine Circus at the RA Centre in Ottawa on Sunday, August 10, 2014. Photo by Patrick Doyle / Ottawa Citizen ...

The live animals have been replaced by holograms. Due to concerns over animal welfare, Germany's Roncalli circus stopped using lions and elephants in its shows in 1991.

To a circus the benefits of this approach are of course manifold, as not only do they no longer have to carry lots of animals around every time the circus moves to a new location – along with ...