…. and this is good news!! Yes ….
This video is called Earth Focus Episode 58 – Asian Elephants in Peril.
From Discovery News:
Ringling Bros. to Phase Out Use of Circus Elephants
Mar 6, 2015 09:20 AM ET
Across America through the decades, children of all ages delighted in the arrival of the circus, with its retinue of clowns, acrobats and, most especially, elephants.
But, bowing to criticism from animal rights groups, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Thursday it will phase out use of their emblematic Indian stars.
The company said the giant pachyderms will be gradually withdrawn from the big top, and will be gone from the show altogether by 2018.
Feld Entertainment — the parent company of America’s best known circus — called the decision an “unprecedented change in the 145-year old ‘Greatest Show On Earth’.”
Thirteen of the animals currently part of the circus’ migrating entourage…
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I read about it in the newspaper – one of the rare times I look at my paper because I get the news mostly from the blogosphere. This business of retiring the elephants is a long time in coming, and I’m wondering if these giants will be able to last until 2018!! They are very old already, and it looks like the circus is willing to draw every drop of blood out of these wonderful animals before “retiring” them.
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Agree …. makes me sad. Why wait? Do it now …. and they have a rehab center for them? Wondering ….
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