This riveting documentary tells the tragic story of Tyke, a wild elephant forced to live within the confines of circus life and perform tricks. In 1973, a very young Tyke was wrested from her family ...

It’s hard to know how zoo and circus animals feel about their lives, but it’s certainly within reason to assume some of them would prefer to live somewhere else. Circus staff in Yekaterinburg ...

Mexico’s Supreme Court has ordered a zoo to improve the health of an African elephant named Ely, the first time the country’s ...

An overwhelming amount of evidence establishing the severe physical, emotional and behavioral harm inflicted upon endangered Asian elephants by the circus was revealed over the course of the six-week ...

Following years of protests from animal rights groups and charges of animal cruelty, the circus officially retired its last 11 performing elephants in May. “People were asking, ‘What’s going ...