ADI Animal Defender Magazine US Summer 2012

ISSN: 2158-5032

� Elephant ride victories� Jorja Fox takes on the elephant abusers� Greece, Paraguay and Ecuador ban animal circuses� The push for Federal legislation� Animal rescue news

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EditorialI can remember first filming atOrange County Fair during ourinvestigation of Have Trunk WillTravel. Scorching hot, theelephants plodding around, thebullhooks ensuring they compliedinstantly with every command.Horrific scenes of electric shocksand beatings unfolded during ourdeep undercover investigation

inside the HTWT ranch. Now, finally, therides at OC Fair are no more.

The Orange County Fair Board viewedthe ADI evidence and the rides wereended. Not just there but also LosAngeles County Fair, Fountain Valley,Santa Ana Zoo and Sierra Madre. Years

of abuse swept aside with thatinvestigation. And Hollywood implicated,for using such animals, too.

When we first embedded our undercoverteam in South Americas circuses, we hadhope and conviction, but did not envisagethe shockwave the findings would sendacross the continent. First the Bolivia ban,and our dramatic rescue operation; thenPeru, restrictions in Ecuador, now a banin Paraguay – and legislation progressingin Colombia (with Bogota already banningcircuses) and Brazil.

Our march toward federal legislationbegan with a study of nine U.S. circuses,and along with months of detailed draftingand research, provided the spine of

evidence that finally gave us the TravelingExotic Animal Protection Act. We’redigging in for the long haul now, it willtake work and more investigations.

The campaign to end the use ofperforming wild animals in movies,advertising and TV has been invigoratedby our investigations. And theinvestigations of the primate laboratoriesand monkey dealers have been pivotal toEurope’s decision to end wild monkeytrapping for European laboratories.

Exposing the suffering and injustice is thekey to saving animals. That’s why LionArk Night on October 13th willraise funds for this work. I hope tosee you there.

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editors: Jan Creamer and Tim Phillips

Board:Mr N. BriceMs A. BriceMs J. CreamerMs P. DibleyMr T. PhillipsMs M. Windebank

ADI Ambassadors:Mr Bob BarkerMs Jorja Fox

Mission: Founded in 1990, ADI’s mission is to educate, createawareness and promote the interest of humanity in thecause of justice and the suppression of all forms of

cruelty to animals; to alleviate suffering, to conserve andprotect animals and their environment. Founded 1990.

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Lion Ark NightOctober 13th save the date!

It began with our investigators embedded in the South American circuses; it led to country after country banning animal circuses; then in Operation Lion Ark ADI swooped on the Bolivian circuses and rescued every animal.

Come roar freedom with us!Join Jorja Fox and Animal Defenders International for a

celebrity fundraiser at the home of James Costa in the Hollywood Hills –to support ADI undercover investigations and getting the animals out of circuses. We will be honoring award-winning TV host and

philanthropist Bob Barker, who made it all possible.

Presentation of the prestigious Lord Houghton Award to Bob Barker.

Special private preview of scenes from Lion Ark The Movie.

Meet the ADI founders & Lion Ark Team

A night for the animals to roar.

Contact: Amanda Hudson, ADI Los AngelesTel: (323) 935 2234

[email protected]

extinction, offering them for rides sends thewrong message about how we treat our

planet’s rare and vanishingspecies. We should beashamed of ourselves ashuman beings to know thatsuch misery is inflicted onthese highly intelligent andself-aware animals forsomething as frivolous asrides.”

Over 100 people made upthe standing-room-onlycrowd spilling into thelobby. For four hours the

Board heard about the brutal training ofelephants and the tragic consequences

and trainers hitting and hooking elephantswith bullhooks and shocking them with stunguns.

ADI Ambassador BobBarker sent an impassionedplea to the Fair Board: “Ihope you are as appalledas I am at what this videodepicts: elephantsrepeatedly shocked withhand-held stun guns, thecries of an elephant beingshocked into performing aheadstand, and elephantsstruck on the body and legswith bullhooks. Even the baby elephantdoes not escape this cruel training. At atime when we are fighting to save highlyendangered Asian elephants from

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Campaign News

ADI is steadily sweeping SouthernCalifornia clean of elephant abuse,with one location after anothersevering ties with HaveTrunk Will Travel(HTWT), a performingelephant provider ADIcaught on camerabeating and using stunguns on the animals. Inour last issue, we reportedthe City of Santa Ana endedover 25-years of elephant ridesat the Santa Ana Zoo and the town ofSierra Madre had canceled a paradeappearance by HTWT’s Tai, after beingpresented with our footage of her beingelectric shocked and beaten.

The victories keep coming as The LosAngeles County Fair recently ended theelephant rides after seeing our evidence ofbrutal training.

Fountain Valley Recreation Center decidedagainst elephant rides from HTWT for theirEaster celebration after ADI shared thevideo and reminded city leaders that therides are prohibited by a county ordinance.

In March, the Orange County Fair Boardvoted by six votes to one to end elephantrides. ADI led a coalition of experts,organizations and concerned citizens tospeak up for Tai, Becky, Rosie, Kitty andDixie at the Board meeting. We presentedundercover video showing HTWT owners

Kari Johnson, co-owner of

Have Trunk Will travel,

watches in silence as the

Orange County Fair Board

sees video of her beating an

elephant. After viewing the

shocking ADI video, the Fair

Board voted 6 to 1 to end the

elephant rides.

Help ADI beat the elephant beaters

Inset: Kari Johnsonat the OC FairBoard Meeting

Below, left: BobBarker with hisfriend Federico.

Below, left to right:ADI vet MelRichardson speaksat the OC FairBoard Meeting whileNick BerardinoGeneral manager,OC EmployeesAssociation listens;

Elephant rides atthe San Diego Fair;

ADI’s founder JanCreamer on KTLAunleashes the ADIvideo storm;

Matt Rosselladdresses themeeting.

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when wild animals under duress areplaced in close proximity to the public.

The Board meeting was attended by ADIPresident and co-founder Jan Creamer(organized HTWT investigation and canauthenticate the video) and CampaignsDirector Matt Rossell, taking our exampleof a bullhook and stun gun, similar to thoseused by HTWT in ADI’s footage. Mattpresented the evidence and after a longday, the Board voted to stop the rides.

The OC Fair Board has set a positiveexample for other events in the area thatstill offer elephant rides provided by HTWT,such as Kern County and the LemonFestival, which we hope will follow theirlead.

Please help us to keep up thepressure to end the elephant

suffering –please send a donation today.

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Campaign News

ADI calls on stars to end silence on abuse of animal actorsFor Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, Water for Elephants was aromantic fantasy, and they have moved on to the nextglamorous project. For Tai it was a nightmare reality, andshe remains in the hands of those that ADI caught on filmabusing her, HTWT.

Tai and Rosie (star of Zookeeper) are back in thecircus performing the same tricks seen in the films.ADI recently filmed them with El Zagal Shrine Circus,in Fargo, N. Dakota.

At the circus, trainer Joanne Smith – remember her inthe ADI undercover footage at HTWT electric shockingand hitting the elephants, and saying “Don’t you betakin’ pictures of me hookin’ on ‘em” – confirms thatthe two elephants giving rides and performing headstands are Tai andRosie. We released new footage showing the tricks in the Circus,alongside the brutality that created those tricks.

Last year ADI released undercover footage of abuse at HTWT afterthe makers and stars of Water for Elephants, as well as American

Humane and HTWT, claimed Tai was treated with love andaffection and never abused. Then Rosie appeared in Zookeeperwith Kevin James, also with American Humane approval.

At the time ADI believed that Pattinson, Witherspoon and thefilmakers had been duped. We sent them the video and askedthem to speak out. Not a word. We sent the video to the studio,producers and director. No reply. Letters were sent to the makers ofZookeeper and its star, Kevin James. Again, no response.

See our new video on the Facebook pages andTwitter feeds of Pattinson, Witherspoon andJames, asking them to support our campaign andspeak out against the abuse of performinganimals in movies. The abuse is not going tostop until the stars speak out.

What you can do: Contact ADI for our movieletter writer’s action pack: by email [email protected] by phone 323-935-2234.

gary Johnson, who co-founded HTWT with KariJohnson, electric shocks Taithe elephant during training.

Robert Pattinson photo © Eva RinaldiReese Witherspoon photo © U.S. Department of StateKevin James photo © www.Promiflash.de - Bitte bei Bildverwendung auch Link setzen

No Hollywood

ending for Tai

and RosieElephants that starred with

Witherspoon, Pattinson and

James back with the circus

WATCH THIS!You can see our NeW video here:bit.ly/watchnohollywoodending

or scan this QR code (below) on yoursmart phone.

(To scan this code with your smartphone,download the “QR Reader” for iPhone app orthe “Barcode Scanner” for Android app fromyour app store. Then scan with your phone’scamera.)

No Hollywood ending for elephants who starred with

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State “humane” wildlife

committee member caught

shocking elephantsIn February, ADI attended CaliforniaDepartment of Fish & Game AdvisoryCommittee on Humane Care andTreatment of Wild Animals to deliver ourvideo showing Have Trunk Will Travel(HTWT) elephants repeatedly electricshocked and beaten with bullhooks duringtraining.

In the room was committee member KariJohnson, co-owner of HTWT (see p3).

ADI Campaigns Director, Matt Rossell said:

“Anyone caught violating state law byshocking elephants and other horrificabuses has no business advising the Dept.

of Fish & Game about thehumane care of captivewildlife.” He added: “This is anextreme example of the foxwatching the hen house andwe are calling on DepartmentDirector Charlton Bonham toclear this committee ofmembers with similar conflictsof interest.”

ADI’s undercoverinvestigations reveal thatabusive, circus-style training of

wild animals is common in theentertainment industry. And the violenceoften escalates when potentially dangerouswild animals are forced to perform in closeproximity to the public.

This raises potential conflict of interest withother members on this Committee. Forexample, Feld Entertainment, the parentcompany of Ringling Bros. Barnum &Bailey Circus which is also represented,recently entered into a settlement with theUSDA for alleged violations of the AnimalWelfare Act (AWA) and paid a $270,000fine, the largest of its kind in the history of

the AWA.

ADI Ambassador Jorja Fox (CSI’s Sarah Sidle) has released a new video for ADI,calling for an end to circus animal abuse.

The 90-second video tells the story of Krissy, an elephant torn from the wild inAfrica, who ended up in an American circus where an ADI undercoverinvestigator filmed Krissy being dragged to her knees with a bullhookbefore being kicked in the face by her Texas-based handler, Mike Swain,who continues to work with elephants, including Krissy (now usedfor elephant rides at fairs and other events). Krissy and hercompanion Queenie (aka Boo) were also hit with a golf club andelectric shocked with a stun gun, to make them move faster. Thebrutal scenes are juxtaposed with breathtaking images of a familyof wild elephants living free in Zambia.

A Special Message from Jorja

I’d like to tell you about Krissy the elephant.

In 1984, Krissy was just two years old, a baby still hugging close to hermother’s side, nestled safe in her extended elephant family and roamingfree across miles of African bush.

We will never know exactly what happened, but baby Krissy was snatched fromthe wild, wrenched away from her family and home and brought to America. Shewas passed from one owner to another until she found herself in a traveling circus inthe U.S…

Watch our video about Krissy and please pass it on to a friend to watch.

I am proud to have worked with Animal Defenders International for several years,witnessing their incredible rescues first hand – like Operation Lion Arkwhen they closed down every circus in Bolivia and airlifted 25rescued lions to safety in Colorado. I’ve also taken part intheir amazing initiatives such as the launch of H.R. 3359,The Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act, in Congress.

ADI really needs your help... to save animals, educateand change the world... together we can end thesuffering of animals like Krissy. Please send adonation today.

Thanks, Jorja

Campaign News

“This is abullhook. It’s heavy,

it’s sharp, and it hurts.

This is the weapon ofchoice to get elephants

to perform tricks toamuse people.”

Jorja Fox takes on theelephant abusers innew ADI video

Watch Jorja’s video!You can see Jorja’s video on the ADI youtube site:www.youtube.com/animaldefenders, or scan this QR code on your smartphone.

And please pass it on....

Grassroots push forfederal legislationWe are lifting the tent flap toexpose the horrible and cruelsecret hiding under the big top ofAmerican traveling circuses. our Break The Chain network oflocal campaigners are out in themedia to challenge animalcircuses everywhere. But that isnot all – we can lobby in ourdistricts for the Traveling exoticAnimal Protection Act (H.R. 3359).Country after country is endingthis suffering – in this issue aloneyou’ll see greece, Paraguay andecuador have now banned andgreat Britain and Colombia havemoved closer. It must be time for America!

November 2nd, 2011 marked the beginningof the end for exotic animals in circuses inthe U.S.A. That was the dayRepresentative Jim Moran unveiled theTraveling Exotic Animal Protection Act(TEAPA) at a packed Congressional pressconference attended by award-winning TVhost Bob Barker, CSI actress Jorja Fox,ADI and PAWS.

Fast forward five months, and the list ofcosponsors continues to grow; Break TheChain (BTC) campaigners are out in theirdistricts, publicizing the suffering when thecircus comes to town and lobbying theirrepresentatives to support TEAPA.

Thanks to our BTC campaigners, we nowhave 23 co-sponsors on the bill including

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Groups Allege Agency's Failure to Provide LegallyRequired Information Invalidates Ringling's PermitsPETA and ADI have filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Los Angeles against theU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The suit alleges that FWS illegally issued permitsto Feld Entertainment, Inc., parent company of Ringling Bros. & Barnum and BaileyCircus, to export nine endangered Asian elephants and 17 endangered tigers, includingto Mexico, where the animals—some of them ailing—are now being forced to perform.

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) forbids the exportation of the endangeredelephants and tigers, except under certain narrowly defined conditions—none of which,the plaintiffs believe, Ringling could have met.

The ESA also requires that the public be provided with extensive information showingwhy an exception should be granted before the permit is issued. This was never done.

In fact, Ringling’s applications provide no specific dates or countries when and wherethe animals will be moved again over the time spans—up to three years—covered bythe permits. For four of the permit applications, the FWS failed to provide the plaintiffswith any information despite the clear requirement to do so under the ESA.

"FWS is apparently rubber-stamping blanket animal export applications and violatingthe very laws it's charged with enforcing," says PETA Foundation Director of CaptiveAnimal Law Enforcement Delcianna Winders. "FWS has essentially granted Ringlingpermission to go on routinely beating and whipping animals without even the tokenoversight that the circus receives here in the United States."

Most of the nine elephants covered by the permits have serious health problems. Theyinclude Sarah, who has tested positive for the human strain of TB and who collapsedlast year in Anaheim after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Ringling for failing toadequately treat her for a chronic infection; Aussan, who suffers from painful arthritis;and Siam, whom the Washington, D.C., Department of Health recently observedlimping.

In 2011, Ringling paid the largest fine in U.S. history ($270,000) for numerous violationsof the Animal Welfare Act.

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shipped Jumbo overseas to New York City.Kirk detailed how the tradition of abusivetraining hasn’t changed in as many yearsand highlighted ADI investigations.

Even more significant was Dan Murphy’sopinion piece “Three ring sideshow” inDrovers Cattle Network, an agribusinessjournal, which discussed TEAPA. Murphyconcluded, “Given the exemptions providedand given the reality that opposition to thisbill would be all too easy to characterize asirresponsible, the industry’s best coursemight be quiet support.” A clear indicationthat the growing consensus, worldwide,that the abuse of wild animals in the nameof entertainment is unacceptable, has avery broad base.

The evidence

The success of the ADI global circuscampaign is based on evidence. Thereason we send you desperate pleas tokeep our field officers out there gatheringthe evidence, is because ultimately that’s

ADI

Representatives Bob Filner (D-CA), DennisKucinich (D-OH), Barbara Lee (D-CA),James McGovern (D-MA), Jerrold Nadler(D-NY), Jared Polis (D-CO), Nick Rahall(D-WV), Steven Rothman (D-NJ), FortneyStark (D-CA), Christopher Van Hollen (D-MD), Sam Farr (D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Gary Peters(D-MI), William Owens (D-NY), JackieSpeier (D-CA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL),Charles Rangel (D-NY), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), William Keating, (D-MA), Dale Kildee,(D-MI) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA).

Break the Chain

Below: JanCreamer, MattRossell, Jorja Fox,Tim Phillips andDave Wenhold hitthe lobbying trail atCongress

ADI had a fantastic TEAPA Week of Actionof outreach to Congress in March. Wewere joined by PAWS, PETA, In Defenseof Animals and dozens of grassrootsorganizations mobilizing supporters tocontact their Representatives about thebill. Stay tuned for more of theseoutreach events coming up!

Roll Call, ‘the newspaper of Capitol Hill’recently ran a story about the Ringling

Bros Circus going to Washington DC andthe accompanying protests. The articlementioned TEAPA and quoted ADI:“keeping elephants in chains, confiningwild animals like lions and tigers insmall cages and using physicalviolence to make them performunnatural tricks for the solepurpose of humanamusement is increasinglydifficult to justify.”

Media awareness of theissue is growing. Hats off toJay Kirk for his brillianteditorial in the Los AngelesTimes, “End the circus of cruelty”where he championed TEAPA andtraced abuse in U.S. circuses backto 1882, when P.T. Barnum crated and

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what changes laws and saves lives. This isbacked up with intense, painstakingresearch in the scientific journals and othersources.

Every section of TEAPA is referenced withfull copies of these sources provided onour website – www.federalcircusbill.org

The empirical and scientific evidence isoutlined in our special briefings forlegislators, both federal and local.

YOU CAN HELP – take our federal circusbill pack to your Member of Congress intheir district office. Ask to talk to themabout it (we can help).

YOU CAN HELP – help ADI to campaignfor a local ordinance where you live – wecan visit your local representatives withyou, and give them our local briefings.Local bans save animals, and are animportant part of the drive for federallegislation.

Animal Welfare in Traveling Circuses

Animal welfare is not only assessed bybasic needs of food, water, shelter, andfreedom from fear and distress, but also byan animal’s ability to have some controlover its environment, to express naturalbehavior and exercise its body and mind.ADI’s observations of traveling circusesshow that most if not all of these welfareneeds are restricted. Large cats such aslions and tigers spend between 75-99% oftheir time in cages on the backs of vehiclesin severely restricted space. Elephantsspend 58-98% of their time chained by atleast one leg, and more commonly both afront and a hind leg, only able to take onestep forward or back. The mobile nature ofthe traveling circus means that husbandry

cannot be significantlyimproved.

Captivity and

Transport

Constant travel andconfinement cause stress. Studies haveshown that during transport, animals sufferincreased heart rate, raised hormonelevels, lowered immunity to disease, weightloss, aggression and stereotypic behaviors.We have found no evidence that familiaritywith transport can necessarily ease stress;in fact some experts think the oppositemay be true.

Because the animal facilities have to betaken down and put back up in every town,time spent in vehicles by animals often farexceeds the actual trip. For example, ADIinvestigators tracked elephants in a trailerfor 19½ hours for a 5-hour journey.

Animal Control and Violence

Living in temporary facilities, meeting showdeadlines and forcing animals to performrequires a very high level of control. Manyof these animals are large and dangerous,and workers can become anxious,especially when the animals are in public.These are the flashpoints, when theanimals must be in the ring, get on trailers,or get ready for rides, to a schedule. Often,poorly paid circus workers who lackexpertise about animals resort toscreaming, punching and beating them.

During training sessions we have seenlions, tigers and elephants brutalized andsubjugated with beatings, food deprivation,social isolation and even electric shocks.In public the mere presence of a bullhook,or even a similar looking stick, is areminder for an elephant of what toexpect if it doesn’t obey.

Public Health and Safety

Traveling circuses pose a seriousthreat to public safety. Keeping wildanimals closely confined, stressedand in dangerously close proximity tothe public in lightweight, temporaryenclosures has proven disastrous.Circus workers, and members of thepublic, including children, have been

killed and maimed by circusanimals, and lions, tigers andelephants have all escaped.

Diseased animals pose apublic health risk at traveling

circuses. An estimated twelvepercent of Asian elephants and two percentof African elephants in North America areinfected with tuberculosis (TB), acontagious disease that can be passedfrom elephants to humans. Documentedcases have confirmed transmission of TBfrom elephants to humans.

Oversight

The transient nature of traveling circuses,where both animals and their handlersregularly change, combined withcontinuous travel across the country,makes law enforcement difficult toimpossible. Local animal control officersare frequently faced with attempting toprotect the welfare of species with whichthey are unfamiliar. Even husbandrychanges from week to week depending onthe site.

Gathering evidence of compliance withlocal restrictions can be difficult and often acircus has moved on before action can betaken. Costly oversight arrangementscannot prevent accidents and physicalabuse, nor protect wild animals travelingfor months in small, temporary facilities.

Economics and jobs

Every country that is ending the use ofanimals in traveling circuses is faced withthe same issue: whether a restriction onanimal use will put people out of work.Many of these countries face enormouseconomic and employment challenges. Yetthey are realizing that as well as being the

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right thing to do, banning traveling wildanimal acts makes economic sense, too.Circuses with just human performers

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TEAPA is a reformingmeasure. As CongressmanMoran noted at the launch,it addresses the mostegregious aspects of theindustry. It doesn’t stopcircuses, it will not evenstop all animal acts(horses, dogs andother domesticspecies will still be

allowed) but it will endand enormous amount of suffering

and address a range of health and safetyissues.

Worldwide, animal circuses are in declinewhereas human shows continue to grow.

Cirque du Soleil has grown from one showin 1990 to 19 shows performing now in 271cities generating an estimated annualrevenue exceeding $810 million.

In sharp contrast Piccadilly Circus, whichstill uses wild animals, recently canceledshows across Southern California due topoor ticket sales.

No circuses are solely reliant on wildanimals, which normally represent lessthan 50% of the showtime.

Furthermore, research into workingpractices shows that most circus workershave multiple roles, and staff can beretrained as the circus moves away fromexotic animal acts. Circus Vargas removedtheir animal acts and the businesscontinues, as it can for any traveling circusthat wants to keep pace with their patrons’growing preference for cruelty freeentertainment.

Next steps

The bill is now in the House AgricultureLivestock Dairy and Poultry subcommittee,awaiting a hearing.

Help – speak to your Member of Congressat their district office; give them a BTCbriefing pack; ask them to cosponsor.

Help – even if you have already contactedyour Representative, please keep thefriendly dialogue going and take everyopportunity to reach out. Update them. Letus know when you get a response, so wecan track national progress.

Help – let us know when a circus iscoming to your town; we can help withdemos and publicity.

Lindsey Vesolowski is a junior at California Baptist University, and when she joined herspeech and debate team, her professor said she could speak on anything shewanted. "Why not write about something I am passionate about?" Lindseythought and picked animal abuse in circuses, highlighting the Traveling ExoticAnimal Protection Act (HR 3359). Lindsey had participated in protests outsideperformances of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey the previous summer.“Seeing the animals look so miserable stayed with me,” Lindsey said. “I wanted togive them a voice.” Lindsey went to three tournaments, each time getting ashocked response, with other competitors saying they had no idea what happenedbehind the scenes at circuses, that they would not be attending any more circuses,and that they were going to support TEAPA.

Pictured: Lindsey with her mom Cheryl at a recent Shrine Circus demo in Los Angeles.

Help – us to propose a local ordinanceabout wild animals in traveling circuses inyour area. Contact us.

Share information about this bill withfriends and family, and urge them tocontact their Member of Congress as well.

Join our BTC network, be inspired byothers!

What you can do:

Contact your Member of Congresstoday– ask for their support for TEAPA(HR 3359). See the details and talkingpoints on our grassroots sitewww.breakthechainus.org

Sign up for Break the Chain alerts–contact our Los Angeles office at 323-935-2234 or [email protected]

get Break the Chain text alerts– text theword CHAIN to 55678. (Standard textmessage rates apply).

Hand out our Break the Chain leaflets,in school, work, college, to neighbors–never be without something you can handout!

get our Congressional Briefing pack–have the answers at your fingertips; ensureyour representative has what they need tosupport HR 3359.

get our Local Circus ordinance Pack–work with us to get a local ordinance onwild animals in traveling circuses – help tobreak the chain of circus suffering!

get in touch with our Los Angeles officetoday–call 323-935-2234email [email protected].

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Colombia movescloser to circus ban

ADI Colombia andRep. AugustoPosada of theColombianCongress haveannounced thatBill 52/2011 to endthe suffering ofanimals in

traveling circuses has passed through theHouse of Representatives by a unanimousvote and now moves on to the Senate.

The Bill prohibits the use of exotic, wildand domestic animals in traveling circusesand provides for penalties for violations; ithas cross party support, with sixteenmembers of different political partiessigned up.

Working withRep. Posada,Eduardo Peñaof ADIColombia(pictured right,on floor ofCongress) anda coalition oflocal campaigners are following through onall stages of the Senate process.

Our campaign to end the use of animals incircuses in Colombia began in 2007following an ADI undercover investigation.

We found a staggering level of violenceand animal abuse. One particularly brutalincident involved a female chimpanzeenamed Karla, who was punched in the faceand whipped with a chain by her trainer.

In circus after circus, we uncoveredtraumatized animals living in inadequate,barren and unnatural conditions, with littlespace to exercise and display naturalbehaviors.

Animals werealso kepttogether withincompatiblespecies,resulting in alack of socialinteraction.

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When we first placed our team of field officers deep inside the South Americancircus industry in 2005 for two years, we could never have dared imagine thatour findings would send such a shock wave across the entire continent.Following the launch in 2007, governments have acted decisively.

Some of the most shocking scenes of the investigation were filmed in ecuador:monkeys living in chains in squalor; a bull being beaten to his knees; the elderlylion Indiano (above), in a cage little bigger than his body, being dragged andkicked; a donkey being kicked and dogs being repeatedly beaten.

Paraguay

Paraguay has become the latest country to ban the use of wild animals incircuses. Resolution 2002/12, issued by the Secretary of the Ministry of theEnvironment (Secretaría del Medio Ambiente), was issued in early June.

All shows (public, commercial or ‘educational’) are banned. Although animal circusescan transport their animals across the country, they cannot exhibit them in public. ADIis in touch with the authorities to offer any assistance necessary.

Ecuador

ecuador’s Ministry of Environment has issued Ministerial Regulation 0062, which:protects wild animals from acts or omissions which would cause suffering, injury ordegrade the animals; bans the use of native wild animals in circuses; restricts andregulates exotic wild animals through welfare conditions; closes Ecuador’s borders tocircuses with native or exotic wild animal circuses; bans acts that could cause harm toanimals and cruelty in training; prohibits breeding of exotic wild animals.

We are liaising with government officials about further provisions.

Bans and restrictions are now in place in Bolivia and Peru and legislation is beingdiscussed in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, with campaigns in other countriesunder way.

Help us keep this going! Donate now to our South American campaign:

http://www.ad-international.org/donate

Top: ADIcampaigners inCongress.

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By 2010, the Ministry ofAgriculture indicated thatthere would be a ban; ittook a further two years to ensurethat it was secured.

Greece is the second country inEurope, behind Bosnia andHerzegovina, to ban all animalsfrom circuses. Austria and Croatiacurrently have bans on wild animalacts, and several European countriesincluding Portugal and Denmark havemeasures to ban or phase out wild animalsin circuses.

Bolivia was the first country in the world tointroduce a national ban on any and allanimals from circuses. This led to the jointADI enforcement operation with theBolivian wildlife authorities, rescuing everyanimal (lions, primates, other wild animalsand horses) from the circuses who defiedthe law.

ADI and GAWF are committed to assistingwith enforcement of this new ban.

Please help us continue to expose andend the suffering. Please donate.

Victory!Greece bans all animalcircuses

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After a six year campaign by ADI and theGreek Animal Welfare Fund (GAWF),backed by over 50 local animal protectiongroups, the Greek Government hasbanned the use of all animals in circuses.The new animal welfare law alsoaddresses other animal welfare issues.

For the campaign, we filmed horrificmisery, such as a hippo living in a small,filthy cage on the back of a truck with astinking pool barely bigger than a bath tub.

The Greek campaign, like many othersaround the world, really took off in 1998with the launch of ADI’s ‘Ugliest Show onEarth’ video – the world’s first long-termundercover investigation of animalcircuses. The suffering of animals in U.K.and European circuses and winter quartersshocked the world; the U.K.’s first circuscruelty convictions followed.

Over the next few years, it helpedcampaigners to secure bans in towns andcities in the U.S, South America, Asia, U.K.and Europe. Singapore, Costa Rica,Austria and others passed national bans,

too. And towns such as Thessaloniki inGreece acted quickly.

Greece appeared ready for nationallegislation, so armed with a newinvestigation, we joined forced with GAWF.Media launches were held in succession in

Crete, Thessaloniki and Athens.

More bans in towns and citiesfollowed, in Patras, Xanthi,Eleftheron, Kavala, Glika NeraAttikis, Elefsina, Lamia and NeaMakri, Thermi, Kalamaria andPrevezaMalia, Kalamata, Serresand Aridea Pellas.

Footage of animals suffering incircuses in Greece, including anelephant being beaten anddragged with a bullhook,

disgusted the public, who wanted action.

Even national schools writing and paintingcompetitions included hundreds of entriescondemning circus suffering.

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According to The Hollywood

Reporter Paramount Pictures isplanning a film about Ringling Bros.Circus. The plot is expected to be a“family adventure” set in the circus.Paramount writers have worked onseveral children’s films and TV showsincluding The Smurfs and Rugrats.

Write a polite letter to the studio andscreenplay writers and urge them not tomake a film about this cruel industry.Ask them to meet with ADI.

Paramount Pictures DistributionJim Tharp, President of Distribution Mark Bakshi, President of FeatureProduction Management 5555 Melrose Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90038

Davis EntertainmentJohn Davis, ProducerJ.David Stem and David N. Weiss, Writers150 S. Barrington PlLos Angeles, CA 90049

ADI supporter Carol Tracey wasinterviewed by global Calgary TVabout circus suffering when the RoyalCanadian Circus visited Calgary.

Belleview,NebraskaCityCouncildenied apermit tothe Carsonand BarnesCircus.CM DonPreister

said independent research founddozens of violations against the circus.One of the main factors in the decisionwas public safety. Councilman Priestersaid, "....if there have been that manyviolations, not one or two, but that largeof number, do we want to put thecommunity at risk?

Donald Trump’s sons Don Jr. anderic Trump killed an elephant, leopard,crocodile, waterbuck, kudu and a Capebuffalo while on safari. Photos of theTrumps with their ‘trophies’ surfaced onthe Hunting Legends website.

ADI investigation

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owners to courtCircus owners Bobby and Moira Robertsare on trial in the U.K. on charges of:

� causing Anne the elephant unnecessarysuffering due to chaining her to the ground atall times;

� failing to take reasonable steps to preventtheir employee from causing unnecessarysuffering to Anne by repeatedly beating her;

� failing to take reasonable steps to ensurethat Anne’s needs were met.

The charges are denied. An ADI undercoverinvestigation captured video of Anne chained inside the Bobby Roberts’ Super Circus

winter quarters, being beaten by workers. Anne hadentered the barn at the end of the circus season inNovember 2010 and would normally have left thefollowing spring. ADI’s 24hrs/day footage amounts to550 hours and was taken over a three and a half weekperiod in January and February 2011. The release of thefootage cause public outrage and led to Anne beingremoved from the circus.

In order to get justice for Anne, ADI bore the huge costsof the investigation and preparing the legal case whichhas now been taken over by the U.K.’s Crown

Prosecution Service. This will be the first trial of a circus under the new U.K. AnimalWelfare Act 2006 and will test whether the intention of the Act, that owners should be held

responsible for what happens to their animals, can beenforced. The only other circus convictions in the U.K.

(Mary Chipperfield, Roger Cawley and Steven Gills) werealso brought by ADI, but under previous legislation.

Let’s hope that this is the last of such cases.

Britain to ban wild animal acts... eventually

In an incredibly cynical move, in March the BritishGovernment promised to ban wild animal circuses in

the media, while actually introducing a licensing system.This would delay a ban indefinitely, and probablypermanently, due to the cost of dismantling anexpensive “interim” inspection and licensing regime.

The political sleight of hand has been reported sowidely that many now think that wild animals havebeen banned in Britain! Even some animal protectiongroups initially welcomed the news. Despite 63% ofMembers of Parliament supporting a ban andmassive public opposition to licensing (94.5% want aban), the Government has introduced just that, andcircuses could get as few as one inspection a year!

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Popular veganrestaurantchain, Veggiegrill generouslyhosted anotherfundraiser for ADIin March within Los Angeles’ historicFarmer’s Market. 50% of proceedswere donated for all customers whomentioned ADI when ordering.

The great ApeProtection andCost SavingsAct (gAPCSA)which aims toend experimentson apes isprogressing with165 co-sponsorsin the House and 14 in the Senate. Youcan contact your representatives byvisiting:http://bit.ly/GreatApeProtectionWenka was born in a laboratory atorange Park on May 21, 1954. Fivedecades later, she is at Georgia atEmory University, still being used forresearch. Wenka is the oldest knownchimpanzee in a U.S. lab. She hasbeen experimented on and used tobreed, having all of her babies takenfrom her. There are regular protests atthe lab, find out more:www.freewenka.com

World Week forLab Animals:CampaignsDirector, MattRossell,addressed a rallyon the UCLAcampus, with ADIalso active in Europe and SouthAmerica (pictured in Colombia).

A white Bengal tiger was stolen fromthe Johnny Lam Circus amid a gunbattle in Mexico. The robbery isbelieved to have been by a drug cartel.

An oxford nightclub dropped plansto use a zebra following objectionsfrom ADI and residents.

HBO cancels Luck after horse deathsThe series ‘Luck’ starring Dustin Hoffman saw three horses soseriously injured on-set during the first season that they had to beeuthanized. Public outcry over the deaths of the first two horseson location at Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, CA, wentlargely ignored by the executive producers, David Milch andMichael Mann. However, they finally pulled the plug after the death of a third horse in earlyMarch. Milch and Mann, state “While we maintained the highest safety standardspossible, accidents unfortunately happen and it is impossible to guarantee they won’t inthe future. Accordingly, we have reached this difficult decision” to cease all futureproduction on the series ‘Luck’. American Humane Association's TV and film unit reportthat during the past five years, only one horse has died during film or TV production asidefrom the three that lost their lives on the set of ‘Luck’.

World’s first ‘chimeric’ monkeysWhen news broke about the world’s first ‘chimeric’ monkeys at theOregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Oregon NationalPrimate Research Center – monkeys with the genetic materialfrom six individual embryos – ADI released details of CampaignsDirector, Matt Rossell’s two-year undercover at the facility. Rossellnoted: “This latest so called scientific breakthrough deeplydisturbs me and brings back haunting memories from my two

years in the lab. What I saw there changed me forever and I came to recognize thesocial, intelligent monkeys at the facility as individuals, and that they were being treatedlike little more than furry test tubes.

Drury University minor in Animal StudiesDrury University, in Springfield, MO whose educational missionincludes cultivating students’ “ethical insight and critical thought”has announced a six-course minor in Animal Studies, examininghow humans and animals interact. “The Animal Studies minor isfor students interested in gaining an in-depth understanding of thediverse ways in which the lives of animals and humans intersect,”says Dr. Patricia McEachern, the Dorothy Jo Barker Endowed Professor of Animal Rights.“The interdisciplinary nature of the minor allows students to consider historical andcontemporary interactions between humans and animals from a range of perspectives.” In2008, the award-winning former ‘Price Is Right’ host and Drury alumnus Bob Barkerestablished an endowed professorship which has funded the animal rights courses. In2009 Mr Barker established the Drury University Forum on Animal Rights, paving the wayfor this new minor.

Big Cat Safety Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) and Rep. LorettaSanchez (D-CA) introduced the Big Cats and Public SafetyProtection Act (H.R. 4122) in February which, if passed, wouldprohibit private possession of big cats except in accredited zoosand sanctuaries. The non-partisan bill should reduce keepingthese animals in inappropriate facilities and risks to public safety,and also prohibits the transport and display of animals off-site.

Currently, only nine states have laws strictly prohibiting the private ownership of wildanimals and the remaining states have weak or no laws. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) isworking on introducing a companion bill in the Senate.

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in IrelandWhen Courtney Brothers Circus began touring with five elephants, including parading theanimals through town centres, ADI’s Ireland campaign partner Animal Rights ActionNetwork (ARAN) warned of the risks. First there was a near escape and within days anactual escape with a young elephant running through a parking lot and onto a road. Over30 experts including field researchers, zoos, scientists, and animal protectionists attendingthe Summit for Elephants signed an ADI statement calling for an end to the use ofelephants in circuses, noting: “This week’s escape of an elephant from Courtney BrothersCircus in Cork, Rep. of Ireland, could have easily resulted in disastrous consequences forboth local people and the animal.”

Two days later whilst attempting to break up a fight between two elephants a trainer wascrushed and hospitalised. Jim Conway, general manager of Courtney Brothers Circus,told the Irish Times: “As far as I have been told, two elephants were jostling outside thecircus and a trainer happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time." ADI andARAN launched Stop Circus Suffering Ireland in 2007 following an ADI undercoveroperation there, and are now stepping up calls for a ban. John Carmody of ARAN: "Withthe frantic images of the elephant trying to escape on Tuesday from the circus hittinghouseholds everywhere, people across our nation is finally realising that circuses withanimals have no place in Irish society. The writing is surely on the wall for those stillclinging onto archaic animal acts."

ADI case in theEuropean Courtof Human RightsIn March ADI presented our case to theGrand Chamber of the Court of HumanRights in Strasbourg in an attempt tooverturn a law preventing ADI advertisingon television in the U.K. “At present thelaw effectively bans the broadcast of anyadvert on a matter of controversy, byanyone seeking to do something about thatissue. So whilst primates and otheranimals can be used to sell products, it is

not permitted to create awareness aboutthe impacts on those animals. Ourcommercial advertised a pack whichoutlined the threats to primates. It wasbanned not because of content or accuracybut because of who we are. Our caserevolves around the freedom of a companyor organisation to enter into a nationaldebate on television or radio – and theright to freedom of speech.”

The iniquity of the situation was highlightedby the fact that at the same time softdrinks giant Pepsi were using aperforming chimpanzee in aTV commercial. WhereasADI’s TV advert creatingawareness about thesuffering ofperformingchimpanzees wasbanned.

The case was heardby seven judges andthe ruling is awaited.

Above: ADI’s legalteam present thecase to theEuropean Court ofHuman Rights

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bullfightsIn a hugely progressive move,Colombia’s capital city,Bogota, has ended bullfightingin the city.

Colombia is now in theforefront of the worldwide

campaign to educate the public about the iniquity ofusing animals for human entertainment.

ADI and local groups have worked long and hard,and Bogota’s leaders now agree that these cruel

spectacles celebrating animal torture have no place ina modern, compassionate and civilized society.

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The Summit for elephants organized byour good friends at the PerformingAnimal Welfare Society (PAWS) andoakland Zoo, is a biannual opportunityfor those working to protect elephantsto come together.

This year the venue shifted from the ARK2000 sanctuary to Oakland Zoo, attractingsome 100 attendees and significantrepresentation from the zoo industry. Thismakes it a unique coming together ofanimal activists, sanctuaries, researchersand the captive animal industry.

Oakland Zoo is one of the progressive U.S.zoo’s promoting protected contact, andtaking a stand on the keeping of certainspecies and opposing animal circuses andother inappropriate animal use.

Summit attendees learned about the latestfield research and about the plight ofelephants from conservationists andactivists working to save their habitat andprotect them from poaching and abuse incaptivity. Presenters and participants hailedfrom Brussels, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka,The Netherlands, U.K., Norway, Brazil,Mexico, Canada, and across the U.S.A.

ADI’s President Jan Creamer and VP TimPhillips gave an update on our successfulinternational efforts to end the use ofanimals in circuses. In two years, sincethe last Summit for Elephants, ADI hasclosed down every circus in Bolivia, savedthe animals and secured bans in Greece,Peru and Ecuador. Jan and Tim also talked

through how our campaigns are moving uscloser to bans in other countries such asBrazil, Colombia and Chile. This includedADI’s shocking exposé of the abuse ofAnne the elephant with Bobby RobertsCircus. This led to Anne being moved outof the circus, a prosecution of the owners,and the British Government announcingthey will introduce a ban.

Matt Rossell, ADI Campaigns Director thenjoined in for a U.S. update on the TravelingExotic Animal Protection Act (HR 3359),and announcing the elephant ride victoriesthat had followed our undercover exposé ofHave Trunk Will Travel.

The animal protection and legislativesession also had presentations from:Martha Golar, Esq., Association of the Barof the City of New York, on the role of barassociations; Denise M. Sofranko, DVM,Field Specialist for ElephantsUSDA/APHIS/Animal Care on howregulatory agencies operate and the publiccan work with them; Cindy Machado, fromMarin Humane Society on inspectingcircuses; other aspects of campaigningwere covered by Matt and DelciannaWinders (PETA), Catherine Doyle (IDA),and Leonie Vestering, of Holland’s Wilde

Dieren de Tent Uit; local campaigns byKatie Maneeley (The Animal Agency),Anna Ware (Atlanta Humane Society) andLas Vegas animal advocate, Linda Faso.

Especially inspiring was the work of KartickSatyanarayan and Geeta Seshamani, of

Wildlife SOS India, battling againstincredible odds and getting results.

Various field research on wild elephantswas presented by Keith Lindsay andWinnie Kiiru of the Amboseli ElephantResearch Project, Joyce Poole ofElephantVoices, Caitlin O’Connell Rodwellof Stanford University, and Sharon Niel.Too often research of wild animals has little

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Above: Tim Phillipsand Jan Creameraddress the summit

Below: Ed Stewartof PAWS introducesa session.

Bottom: Pat Derbyand Ed Stewart intheir natural habitat,the magnificentARK2000 sanctuary.

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Campaign News impact on the lives of captive elephants –with circuses and some zoos simplyshrugging off how they live in the wild astwo different things. So this is a valuableforum for these researchers, to put theirfindings into this context.

The practical issues of caring for andaddressing the problems of elephants incaptivity were tackled by Adam M. Stone,of Atlanta Zoo, Dagmar Gerdes, San Juande Aragon Zoo, Mexico, Ariel Fagan, Tufts

University Cummings School of VeterinaryMedicine, Rob Atkinson, The ElephantSanctuary in Tennessee, Guy Lichty, NorthCarolina Zoo, Joel Parrott , Colleen andGina Kinzley, Oakland Zoo, MargaretWhittaker, of Active Environment and, ofcourse, Ed Stewart and Pat Derby ofPAWS.

There was an eye to the future with SofieGoetghebeur and Tony Verhulst, ofElephant Haven who propose Europe’s firstelephant sanctuary.

Informed, inspired and well fed withamazing vegan fare from Native Foodsrestaurateur, Tanya Petrovna, participantsended the summit with a visit to PAWSARK2000 sanctuary in San Andreas, alsohome of four of the lions rescued by ADIfrom Bolivian circuses.

Jan is interviewedfor a documentaryon captive elephantissues during abreak at theSummit.

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How I became an elephantHow I Became an Elephant explores the treatment and threats to Asian elephantsthrough the eyes of Juliette West, a 14-year-old girl from Los Angeles, and the work ofLek Chailert, rehabilitating elephants at the Nature Park, Thailand.

The film centers on the most romanticized area of elephant abuse – traditional mahouttraining in Thailand – and features elephants working, performing and giving rides totourists. Film of baby elephants being abused in the crush cage to break them isharrowing, but this is offset when some of the elephants are seen enjoying theirretirement at the Nature Park.

It also addresses elephant abuse in traveling circuses and features footage from ADIinvestigations. ADI’s relentless pursuit of evidence to show that these animals do notbelong in the entertainment industry is graphic and disturbing, but should convince anyaudience that it time to call a halt.

Pictured above are stills of some of the ADI investigations featured in the movie, andthis is what happened to those animals:

Clockwise from top left: (1) Santus Circus U.K. became completelyanimal free and Rhanee the elephant went to a zoo; (2) Chipperfieldgroom Steve Gills was jailed for abusing this elephant, and Tembowent to a zoo; (3) Mary Chipperfield was convicted and fined forbeating a baby chimpanzee, her husband Roger Cawley convictedand fined for beating elephants, the company Mary ChipperfieldPromotions (suppliers to Disney), closed and the elephants went tozoos; (4) Portuguese circus owner Victor Hugo Cardinalli jabs theelephant close to the eye over 20 times in succession. ADI’sinvestigation led to Portugal phasing out most wild animals in circuses(with a ban on acquisition and breeding). Sadly, these elephantsremained with the circus.

How I Became an Elephant, directed by Tim Gorski and produced byJorja Fox, is now showing at film festivals across the U.S.

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Rescue News

First we went undercover to collect theevidence. Then a long campaign securedBolivia’s ban on animals in circuses. People thought that was it.But a year later we were tracking down thecircuses defying the law, and preparing torescue the animals.Lion Ark is the live action documentary of howADI went head to head with the Bolivian circus

industry and won; the story of 25 lionsfrom eight different circuses whofound freedom in America; and theheartache, sweat and the

exhilaration of animal protectionon the frontline.Scheduled for completionlater this year with a sneakpreview of scenes at theHollywood Hills fundraiser

on october 13th -see page 2.

BE PART OF ITAnyone contributing $1,000 or more to ADI before the endof August (quote ‘Lion Ark’) will be thanked in the credits

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This is our family. The animals that ADI has rescued from terriblesuffering and we now care for. These animals have endured yearsof physical abuse and severe confinement. But with your help weare rebuilding their lives and many willenjoy decades of freedom.

An adoption is a great way of contributingtowards their care and helping save moreanimals.

You can adopt individuals, lovingcouples, even entire prides of lions!Prices are for a year’s adoption. You willreceive a certificate, adoption newsletterand a rescue DVD.

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Ten years of loneliness ended for Tilin when ADIsaved him from a Bolivian circus. He now lives

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Once, the angriest lions werescued from Bolivia duringOperation Lion Ark - nowfree from pain and torment and at

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Today they live as a pride in over 20 acres but, incredibly, ADIrescued these lions from three different circuses in Bolivia.

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Adopt Kenya’s pride $78 Tim was due to be dinner for the lions. Now helives on a Bolivian ranch where he has met Rosita.

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The first pride of lions we rescued from Bolivia.

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Our cubs Bob, Nancy and Percy were the last animals to perform in a circus in Bolivia.They have over 20 years of freedom ahead of them in our care, reunited with their family.

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