Urge 34th International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo to Stop Using Wild Animals
| Keep animals out of the circus! |
In June 2009, PETA Germany asked Princess Stephanie of Monaco to use her influence as patron of the International Circus Festival and urge organisers to stop using wild animals. Lions, elephants and sealions are going to be performing at the festival, but we urgently need your help to show the organisers that their festival is spectacular enough without animals! The suffering of animals in circuses is an issue that has been addressed in many European countries, with Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden all having banned wild animals in circuses.
Training wild animals is only possible through violence and pressure. Investigators for PETA US and our other international affiliates have consistently discovered that circus workers beat elephants, tigers and other wild animals in their face or on their head, ears, trunks, legs and other parts of their bodies with bullhooks and other objects.
Highly intelligent and sensitive animals are transported thousands of miles through all weather conditions in boxes that are not sufficiently ventilated. When they are not being forced to perform, these animals are locked up in tiny cages or chained in plastic tents – instead of swimming in rivers, climbing trees or roaming with their herds. Deprived of everything that is natural and important to them, they often develop stereotypic behaviour patterns and die prematurely.
Please support our efforts to end the suffering of these animals by writing to the festival organisers and asking them to leave the cruelty out of the circus.
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