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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

Lion Ark Night October 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 Angeles Tel: (323) 935 2234 amandahudson@ad-international.org

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I can remember first filming at Orange County Fair during our investigation of Have Trunk Will Travel. Scorching hot, the elephants plodding around, the bullhooks ensuring they complied instantly with every command. Horrific scenes of electric shocks and beatings unfolded during our deep undercover investigation inside the HTWT ranch. Now, finally, the rides at OC Fair are no more. The Orange County Fair Board viewed the ADI evidence and the rides were ended. Not just there but also Los Angeles County Fair, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana Zoo and Sierra Madre. Years

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of abuse swept aside with that investigation. And Hollywood implicated, for using such animals, too. When we first embedded our undercover team in South Americas circuses, we had hope and conviction, but did not envisage the shockwave the findings would send across the continent. First the Bolivia ban, and our dramatic rescue operation; then Peru, restrictions in Ecuador, now a ban in Paraguay – and legislation progressing in Colombia (with Bogota already banning circuses) and Brazil. Our march toward federal legislation began with a study of nine U.S. circuses, and along with months of detailed drafting and research, provided the spine of

Board: Mr N. Brice Ms A. Brice Ms J. Creamer Ms P. Dibley Mr T. Phillips Ms M. Windebank

evidence that finally gave us the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act. We’re digging in for the long haul now, it will take work and more investigations. The campaign to end the use of performing wild animals in movies, advertising and TV has been invigorated by our investigations. And the investigations of the primate laboratories and monkey dealers have been pivotal to Europe’s decision to end wild monkey trapping for European laboratories. Exposing the suffering and injustice is the key to saving animals. That’s why Lion Ark Night on October 13th will raise funds for this work. I hope to see you there. cruelty to animals; to alleviate suffering, to conserve and protect animals and their environment. Founded 1990. ADI network:

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Elephant rides halted in Orange County, LA County and Fountain Valley ADI is steadily sweeping Southern California clean of elephant abuse, with one location after another severing ties with Have Trunk Will Travel (HTWT), a performing elephant provider ADI caught on camera beating and using stun guns on the animals. In our last issue, we reported the City of Santa Ana ended over 25-years of elephant rides at the Santa Ana Zoo and the town of Sierra Madre had canceled a parade appearance by HTWT’s Tai, after being presented with our footage of her being electric shocked and beaten. The victories keep coming as The Los Angeles County Fair recently ended the elephant rides after seeing our evidence of brutal training. Fountain Valley Recreation Center decided against elephant rides from HTWT for their Easter celebration after ADI shared the video and reminded city leaders that the rides are prohibited by a county ordinance. In March, the Orange County Fair Board voted by six votes to one to end elephant rides. ADI led a coalition of experts, organizations and concerned citizens to speak up for Tai, Becky, Rosie, Kitty and Dixie at the Board meeting. We presented undercover video showing HTWT owners

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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. and trainers hitting and hooking elephants with bullhooks and shocking them with stun guns. ADI Ambassador Bob Barker sent an impassioned plea to the Fair Board: “I hope you are as appalled as I am at what this video depicts: elephants repeatedly shocked with hand-held stun guns, the cries of an elephant being shocked into performing a headstand, and elephants struck on the body and legs with bullhooks. Even the baby elephant does not escape this cruel training. At a time when we are fighting to save highly endangered Asian elephants from

extinction, offering them for rides sends the wrong message about how we treat our planet’s rare and vanishing species. We should be ashamed of ourselves as human beings to know that such misery is inflicted on these highly intelligent and self-aware animals for something as frivolous as rides.” Over 100 people made up the standing-room-only crowd spilling into the lobby. For four hours the Board heard about the brutal training of elephants and the tragic consequences

Inset: Kari Johnson at the OC Fair Board Meeting Below, left: Bob Barker with his friend Federico.

Below, left to right: ADI vet Mel Richardson speaks at the OC Fair Board Meeting while Nick Berardino General manager, OC Employees Association listens; Elephant rides at the San Diego Fair; ADI’s founder Jan Creamer on KTLA unleashes the ADI video storm; Matt Rossell addresses the meeting.

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ADI calls on stars to end silence on abuse of animal actors For Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, Water for Elephants was a romantic fantasy, and they have moved on to the next glamorous project. For Tai it was a nightmare reality, and she remains in the hands of those that ADI caught on film abusing her, HTWT. Tai and Rosie (star of Zookeeper) are back in the circus 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 in gary Johnson, who cofounded HTWT with Kari the ADI undercover footage at HTWT electric shocking Johnson, electric shocks Tai and hitting the elephants, and saying “Don’t you be the elephant during training. takin’ pictures of me hookin’ on ‘em” – confirms that the two elephants giving rides and performing headstands are Tai and Rosie. 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 after the makers and stars of Water for Elephants, as well as American Humane and HTWT, claimed Tai was treated with love and affection and never abused. Then Rosie appeared in Zookeeper with Kevin James, also with American Humane approval. At the time ADI believed that Pattinson, Witherspoon and the filmakers had been duped. We sent them the video and asked them to speak out. Not a word. We sent the video to the studio, producers and director. No reply. Letters were sent to the makers of Zookeeper and its star, Kevin James. Again, no response. See our new video on the Facebook pages and Twitter feeds of Pattinson, Witherspoon and James, asking them to support our campaign and speak out against the abuse of performing animals in movies. The abuse is not going to stop until the stars speak out. What you can do: Contact ADI for our movie letter writer’s action pack: by email usa@ad-international.org or by phone 323-935-2234. Robert Pattinson photo © Eva Rinaldi © Animal Defenders International

Please help us to keep up the pressure to end the elephant suffering – please send a donation today.

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when wild animals under duress are placed in close proximity to the public. The Board meeting was attended by ADI President and co-founder Jan Creamer (organized HTWT investigation and can authenticate the video) and Campaigns Director Matt Rossell, taking our example of a bullhook and stun gun, similar to those used by HTWT in ADI’s footage. Matt presented the evidence and after a long day, the Board voted to stop the rides. The OC Fair Board has set a positive example for other events in the area that still offer elephant rides provided by HTWT, such as Kern County and the Lemon Festival, which we hope will follow their lead.

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Campaign News State “humane” wildlife committee member caught shocking elephants In February, ADI attended California Department of Fish & Game Advisory Committee on Humane Care and Treatment of Wild Animals to deliver our video showing Have Trunk Will Travel (HTWT) elephants repeatedly electric shocked and beaten with bullhooks during training. In the room was committee member Kari Johnson, co-owner of HTWT (see p3). ADI Campaigns Director, Matt Rossell said: “Anyone caught violating state law by shocking elephants and other horrific abuses has no business advising the Dept. of Fish & Game about the humane care of captive wildlife.” He added: “This is an extreme example of the fox watching the hen house and we are calling on Department Director Charlton Bonham to clear this committee of members with similar conflicts of interest.” ADI’s undercover investigations reveal that abusive, circus-style training of wild animals is common in the entertainment industry. And the violence often escalates when potentially dangerous wild animals are forced to perform in close proximity to the public. This raises potential conflict of interest with other members on this Committee. For example, Feld Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus which is also represented, recently entered into a settlement with the USDA for alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and paid a $270,000 fine, the largest of its kind in the history of the AWA.

Jorja Fox takes on the elephant abusers in new ADI video 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 in Africa, who ended up in an American circus where an ADI undercover investigator filmed Krissy being dragged to her knees with a bullhook before being kicked in the face by her Texas-based handler, Mike Swain, who continues to work with elephants, including Krissy (now used for elephant rides at fairs and other events). Krissy and her companion Queenie (aka Boo) were also hit with a golf club and electric shocked with a stun gun, to make them move faster. The brutal scenes are juxtaposed with breathtaking images of a family of 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 her mother’s side, nestled safe in her extended elephant family and roaming free across miles of African bush. We will never know exactly what happened, but baby Krissy was snatched from the wild, wrenched away from her family and home and brought to America. She was passed from one owner to another until she found herself in a traveling circus in the 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 Ark when they closed down every circus in Bolivia and airlifted 25 rescued lions to safety in Colorado. I’ve also taken part in their 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, educate and change the world... together we can end the suffering of animals like Krissy. Please send a donation today. Thanks, Jorja

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....

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“This is a bullhook. It’s heavy, it’s sharp, and it hurts. This is the weapon of choice to get elephants to perform tricks to amuse people.”

Campaign News PETA and ADI file lawsuit against Feds over circus animal export permits

Groups Allege Agency's Failure to Provide Legally Required Information Invalidates Ringling's Permits PETA and ADI have filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Los Angeles against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The suit alleges that FWS illegally issued permits to Feld Entertainment, Inc., parent company of Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus, to export nine endangered Asian elephants and 17 endangered tigers, including to Mexico, where the animals—some of them ailing—are now being forced to perform. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) forbids the exportation of the endangered elephants 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 showing why 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 where the animals will be moved again over the time spans—up to three years—covered by the permits. For four of the permit applications, the FWS failed to provide the plaintiffs with any information despite the clear requirement to do so under the ESA. "FWS is apparently rubber-stamping blanket animal export applications and violating the very laws it's charged with enforcing," says PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Delcianna Winders. "FWS has essentially granted Ringling permission to go on routinely beating and whipping animals without even the token oversight that the circus receives here in the United States." Most of the nine elephants covered by the permits have serious health problems. They include Sarah, who has tested positive for the human strain of TB and who collapsed last year in Anaheim after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Ringling for failing to adequately treat her for a chronic infection; Aussan, who suffers from painful arthritis; and Siam, whom the Washington, D.C., Department of Health recently observed limping. In 2011, Ringling paid the largest fine in U.S. history ($270,000) for numerous violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

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Grassroots push for federal legislation We are lifting the tent flap to expose the horrible and cruel secret hiding under the big top of American traveling circuses. our Break The Chain network of local campaigners are out in the media to challenge animal circuses everywhere. But that is not all – we can lobby in our districts for the Traveling exotic Animal Protection Act (H.R. 3359). Country after country is ending this suffering – in this issue alone you’ll see greece, Paraguay and ecuador have now banned and great Britain and Colombia have moved closer. It must be time for America!

November 2nd, 2011 marked the beginning of the end for exotic animals in circuses in the U.S.A. That was the day Representative Jim Moran unveiled the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (TEAPA) at a packed Congressional press conference attended by award-winning TV host Bob Barker, CSI actress Jorja Fox, ADI and PAWS. Fast forward five months, and the list of cosponsors continues to grow; Break The Chain (BTC) campaigners are out in their districts, publicizing the suffering when the circus comes to town and lobbying their representatives to support TEAPA. Thanks to our BTC campaigners, we now have 23 co-sponsors on the bill including

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shipped Jumbo overseas to New York City. Kirk detailed how the tradition of abusive training hasn’t changed in as many years and highlighted ADI investigations. Even more significant was Dan Murphy’s opinion piece “Three ring sideshow” in Drovers Cattle Network, an agribusiness journal, which discussed TEAPA. Murphy concluded, “Given the exemptions provided and given the reality that opposition to this bill would be all too easy to characterize as irresponsible, the industry’s best course might be quiet support.” A clear indication that the growing consensus, worldwide, that the abuse of wild animals in the name of entertainment is unacceptable, has a very broad base.

The evidence The success of the ADI global circus campaign is based on evidence. The reason we send you desperate pleas to keep our field officers out there gathering the evidence, is because ultimately that’s

Representatives Bob Filner (D-CA), Dennis Kucinich (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), Fortney Stark (D-CA), Christopher Van Hollen (DMD), Sam Farr (D-CA), Walter Jones (RNC), Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Gary Peters (D-MI), William Owens (D-NY), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Raul Grijalva (DAZ), William Keating, (D-MA), Dale Kildee, (D-MI) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA).

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ADI had a fantastic TEAPA Week of Action of outreach to Congress in March. We were joined by PAWS, PETA, In Defense of Animals and dozens of grassroots organizations mobilizing supporters to contact their Representatives about the bill. Stay tuned for more of these outreach events coming up! Roll Call, ‘the newspaper of Capitol Hill’ recently ran a story about the Ringling Bros Circus going to Washington DC and the accompanying protests. The article mentioned TEAPA and quoted ADI: “keeping elephants in chains, confining wild animals like lions and tigers in small cages and using physical violence to make them perform unnatural tricks for the sole purpose of human amusement is increasingly difficult to justify.” Media awareness of the issue is growing. Hats off to Jay Kirk for his brilliant editorial in the Los Angeles Times, “End the circus of cruelty” where he championed TEAPA and traced abuse in U.S. circuses back to 1882, when P.T. Barnum crated and

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what changes laws and saves lives. This is backed up with intense, painstaking research in the scientific journals and other sources. Every section of TEAPA is referenced with full copies of these sources provided on our website – www.federalcircusbill.org The empirical and scientific evidence is outlined in our special briefings for legislators, both federal and local. YOU CAN HELP – take our federal circus bill pack to your Member of Congress in their district office. Ask to talk to them about it (we can help). YOU CAN HELP – help ADI to campaign for a local ordinance where you live – we can visit your local representatives with you, and give them our local briefings. Local bans save animals, and are an important part of the drive for federal legislation.

Animal Welfare in Traveling Circuses Animal welfare is not only assessed by basic needs of food, water, shelter, and freedom from fear and distress, but also by an animal’s ability to have some control over its environment, to express natural behavior and exercise its body and mind. ADI’s observations of traveling circuses show that most if not all of these welfare needs are restricted. Large cats such as lions and tigers spend between 75-99% of their time in cages on the backs of vehicles in severely restricted space. Elephants spend 58-98% of their time chained by at least one leg, and more commonly both a front and a hind leg, only able to take one step forward or back. The mobile nature of the traveling circus means that husbandry

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Constant travel and confinement cause stress. Studies have shown that during transport, animals suffer increased heart rate, raised hormone levels, lowered immunity to disease, weight loss, aggression and stereotypic behaviors. We have found no evidence that familiarity with transport can necessarily ease stress; in fact some experts think the opposite may be true. Because the animal facilities have to be taken down and put back up in every town, time spent in vehicles by animals often far exceeds the actual trip. For example, ADI investigators tracked elephants in a trailer for 19½ hours for a 5-hour journey.

Animal Control and Violence Living in temporary facilities, meeting show deadlines and forcing animals to perform requires a very high level of control. Many of these animals are large and dangerous, and workers can become anxious, especially when the animals are in public. These are the flashpoints, when the animals must be in the ring, get on trailers, or get ready for rides, to a schedule. Often, poorly paid circus workers who lack expertise about animals resort to screaming, punching and beating them. During training sessions we have seen lions, tigers and elephants brutalized and subjugated 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 a reminder for an elephant of what to expect if it doesn’t obey.

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killed and maimed by circus animals, and lions, tigers and elephants have all escaped. Diseased animals pose a public health risk at traveling circuses. An estimated twelve percent of Asian elephants and two percent of African elephants in North America are infected with tuberculosis (TB), a contagious disease that can be passed from elephants to humans. Documented cases have confirmed transmission of TB from elephants to humans. "!

Oversight The transient nature of traveling circuses, where both animals and their handlers regularly change, combined with continuous travel across the country, makes law enforcement difficult to impossible. Local animal control officers are frequently faced with attempting to protect the welfare of species with which they are unfamiliar. Even husbandry changes from week to week depending on the site. Gathering evidence of compliance with local restrictions can be difficult and often a circus has moved on before action can be taken. Costly oversight arrangements cannot prevent accidents and physical abuse, nor protect wild animals traveling for months in small, temporary facilities.

Economics and jobs Every country that is ending the use of animals in traveling circuses is faced with the same issue: whether a restriction on animal use will put people out of work. Many of these countries face enormous economic and employment challenges. Yet they are realizing that as well as being the

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S p e a k i n g u p a n im a l s fo r t he Lindsey Vesolowski is a junior at California Baptist University, and when she joined her speech and debate team, her professor said she could speak on anything she wanted. "Why not write about something I am passionate about?" Lindsey thought and picked animal abuse in circuses, highlighting the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (HR 3359). Lindsey had participated in protests outside performances of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey the previous summer. “Seeing the animals look so miserable stayed with me,” Lindsey said. “I wanted to give them a voice.” Lindsey went to three tournaments, each time getting a shocked response, with other competitors saying they had no idea what happened behind 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.

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TEAPA is a reforming measure. As Congressman Moran noted at the launch, it addresses the most egregious aspects of the industry. It doesn’t stop circuses, it will not even stop all animal acts (horses, dogs and other domestic species will still be allowed) but it will end and enormous amount of suffering and address a range of health and safety issues. Worldwide, animal circuses are in decline whereas human shows continue to grow. Cirque du Soleil has grown from one show in 1990 to 19 shows performing now in 271 cities generating an estimated annual revenue exceeding $810 million. In sharp contrast Piccadilly Circus, which still uses wild animals, recently canceled shows across Southern California due to poor ticket sales.

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No circuses are solely reliant on wild animals, which normally represent less than 50% of the showtime. Furthermore, research into working practices shows that most circus workers have multiple roles, and staff can be retrained as the circus moves away from exotic animal acts. Circus Vargas removed their animal acts and the business continues, as it can for any traveling circus that wants to keep pace with their patrons’ growing preference for cruelty free entertainment.

Next steps

Help – us to propose a local ordinance about wild animals in traveling circuses in your area. Contact us. Share information about this bill with friends and family, and urge them to contact their Member of Congress as well. Join our BTC network, be inspired by others!

What you can do: Contact your Member of Congress today– ask for their support for TEAPA (HR 3359). See the details and talking points on our grassroots site www.breakthechainus.org Sign up for Break the Chain alerts– contact our Los Angeles office at 323-9352234 or usa@ad-international.org get Break the Chain text alerts– text the word CHAIN to 55678. (Standard text message rates apply). Hand out our Break the Chain leaflets, in school, work, college, to neighbors– never be without something you can hand out! get our Congressional Briefing pack– have the answers at your fingertips; ensure your representative has what they need to support HR 3359. get our Local Circus ordinance Pack– work with us to get a local ordinance on wild animals in traveling circuses – help to break the chain of circus suffering! get in touch with our Los Angeles office today– call 323-935-2234 email usa@ad-international.org.

The bill is now in the House Agriculture Livestock Dairy and Poultry subcommittee, awaiting a hearing. Help – speak to your Member of Congress at their district office; give them a BTC briefing pack; ask them to cosponsor. Help – even if you have already contacted your Representative, please keep the friendly dialogue going and take every opportunity to reach out. Update them. Let us know when you get a response, so we can track national progress. Help – let us know when a circus is coming to your town; we can help with demos and publicity.

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ADI Colombia and Rep. Augusto Posada of the Colombian Congress have announced that Bill 52/2011 to end the suffering of animals in traveling circuses has passed through the House of Representatives by a unanimous vote and now moves on to the Senate. The Bill prohibits the use of exotic, wild and domestic animals in traveling circuses and provides for penalties for violations; it has cross party support, with sixteen members of different political parties signed up. Working with Rep. Posada, Eduardo Peña of ADI Colombia (pictured right, on floor of Congress) and a coalition of local campaigners are following through on all stages of the Senate process. Our campaign to end the use of animals in circuses in Colombia began in 2007 following an ADI undercover investigation. We found a staggering level of violence and animal abuse. One particularly brutal incident involved a female chimpanzee named Karla, who was punched in the face and whipped with a chain by her trainer. In circus after circus, we uncovered traumatized animals living in inadequate, barren and unnatural conditions, with little space to exercise and display natural behaviors. Animals were also kept together with incompatible species, resulting in a lack of social interaction. © Animal Defenders International

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When we first placed our team of field officers deep inside the South American circus industry in 2005 for two years, we could never have dared imagine that our 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 elderly lion Indiano (above), in a cage little bigger than his body, being dragged and kicked; a donkey being kicked and dogs being repeatedly beaten.

Paraguay Paraguay has become the latest country to ban the use of wild animals in circuses. Resolution 2002/12, issued by the Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment (Secretaría del Medio Ambiente), was issued in early June. All shows (public, commercial or ‘educational’) are banned. Although animal circuses can transport their animals across the country, they cannot exhibit them in public. ADI is 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 or degrade the animals; bans the use of native wild animals in circuses; restricts and regulates exotic wild animals through welfare conditions; closes Ecuador’s borders to circuses with native or exotic wild animal circuses; bans acts that could cause harm to animals 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 being discussed in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, with campaigns in other countries under way. Help us keep this going! Donate now to our South American campaign: http://www.ad-international.org/donate

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After a six year campaign by ADI and the Greek Animal Welfare Fund (GAWF), backed by over 50 local animal protection groups, the Greek Government has banned the use of all animals in circuses. The new animal welfare law also addresses other animal welfare issues.

For the campaign, we filmed horrific misery, such as a hippo living in a small, filthy cage on the back of a truck with a stinking pool barely bigger than a bath tub. The Greek campaign, like many others around the world, really took off in 1998 with the launch of ADI’s ‘Ugliest Show on Earth’ video – the world’s first long-term undercover investigation of animal circuses. The suffering of animals in U.K. and European circuses and winter quarters shocked the world; the U.K.’s first circus cruelty convictions followed. Over the next few years, it helped campaigners to secure bans in towns and cities in the U.S, South America, Asia, U.K. and Europe. Singapore, Costa Rica, Austria and others passed national bans,

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Victory! Greece bans all animal circuses too. And towns such as Thessaloniki in Greece acted quickly. Greece appeared ready for national legislation, so armed with a new investigation, we joined forced with GAWF. Media launches were held in succession in Crete, Thessaloniki and Athens. More bans in towns and cities followed, in Patras, Xanthi, Eleftheron, Kavala, Glika Nera Attikis, Elefsina, Lamia and Nea Makri, Thermi, Kalamaria and PrevezaMalia, Kalamata, Serres and Aridea Pellas. Footage of animals suffering in circuses in Greece, including an elephant being beaten and dragged with a bullhook, disgusted the public, who wanted action. Even national schools writing and painting competitions included hundreds of entries condemning circus suffering.

By 2010, the Ministry of Agriculture indicated that there would be a ban; it took a further two years to ensure that it was secured. Greece is the second country in Europe, behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, to ban all animals from circuses. Austria and Croatia currently have bans on wild animal acts, and several European countries including Portugal and Denmark have measures to ban or phase out wild animals in circuses. Bolivia was the first country in the world to introduce a national ban on any and all animals from circuses. This led to the joint ADI enforcement operation with the Bolivian wildlife authorities, rescuing every animal (lions, primates, other wild animals and horses) from the circuses who defied the law. ADI and GAWF are committed to assisting with enforcement of this new ban. Please help us continue to expose and end the suffering. Please donate.

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Above: Our SCS Greece Campaign materials included a DVD and leaflets. Left: The abuse and misery inside Greek circuses.

Below; Tim Phillips is interviewed during the launch.

Campaign News Right: Moira and Bobby Roberts arrive at court.

ADI investigation brings circus owners to court

According to The Hollywood Reporter Paramount Pictures is planning a film about Ringling Bros. Circus. The plot is expected to be a “family adventure” set in the circus. Paramount writers have worked on several children’s films and TV shows including The Smurfs and Rugrats. Write a polite letter to the studio and screenplay writers and urge them not to make a film about this cruel industry. Ask them to meet with ADI.

Circus owners Bobby and Moira Roberts are on trial in the U.K. on charges of: ● causing Anne the elephant unnecessary suffering due to chaining her to the ground at all times; ● failing to take reasonable steps to prevent their employee from causing unnecessary suffering to Anne by repeatedly beating her; ● failing to take reasonable steps to ensure that Anne’s needs were met. The charges are denied. An ADI undercover investigation captured video of Anne chained inside the Bobby Roberts’ Super Circus winter quarters, being beaten by workers. Anne had entered the barn at the end of the circus season in November 2010 and would normally have left the following spring. ADI’s 24hrs/day footage amounts to 550 hours and was taken over a three and a half week period in January and February 2011. The release of the footage cause public outrage and led to Anne being removed from the circus. In order to get justice for Anne, ADI bore the huge costs of the investigation and preparing the legal case which has 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. Animal Welfare Act 2006 and will test whether the intention of the Act, that owners should be held responsible for what happens to their animals, can be enforced. The only other circus convictions in the U.K. (Mary Chipperfield, Roger Cawley and Steven Gills) were also brought by ADI, but under previous legislation. Let’s hope that this is the last of such cases. © The Press Association

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Belleview, Nebraska City Council denied a permit to the Carson and Barnes Circus. CM Don Preister said independent research found dozens of violations against the circus. One of the main factors in the decision was public safety. Councilman Priester said, "....if there have been that many violations, not one or two, but that large of number, do we want to put the community at risk? Donald Trump’s sons Don Jr. and eric Trump killed an elephant, leopard, crocodile, waterbuck, kudu and a Cape buffalo while on safari. Photos of the Trumps with their ‘trophies’ surfaced on the Hunting Legends website.

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Britain to ban wild animal acts... eventually

ADI supporter Carol Tracey was interviewed by global Calgary TV about circus suffering when the Royal Canadian Circus visited Calgary.

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In an incredibly cynical move, in March the British Government promised to ban wild animal circuses in the media, while actually introducing a licensing system. This would delay a ban indefinitely, and probably permanently, due to the cost of dismantling an expensive “interim” inspection and licensing regime. The political sleight of hand has been reported so widely that many now think that wild animals have been banned in Britain! Even some animal protection groups initially welcomed the news. Despite 63% of Members of Parliament supporting a ban and massive public opposition to licensing (94.5% want a ban), the Government has introduced just that, and circuses could get as few as one inspection a year!

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When news broke about the world’s first ‘chimeric’ monkeys at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Oregon National Primate Research Center – monkeys with the genetic material from six individual embryos – ADI released details of Campaigns Director, Matt Rossell’s two-year undercover at the facility. Rossell noted: “This latest so called scientific breakthrough deeply disturbs 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 the social, intelligent monkeys at the facility as individuals, and that they were being treated like little more than furry test tubes.

Drury University minor in Animal Studies Drury University, in Springfield, MO whose educational mission includes cultivating students’ “ethical insight and critical thought” has announced a six-course minor in Animal Studies, examining how humans and animals interact. “The Animal Studies minor is for students interested in gaining an in-depth understanding of the diverse 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 and contemporary interactions between humans and animals from a range of perspectives.” In 2008, the award-winning former ‘Price Is Right’ host and Drury alumnus Bob Barker established an endowed professorship which has funded the animal rights courses. In 2009 Mr Barker established the Drury University Forum on Animal Rights, paving the way for this new minor.

Big Cat Safety Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) and Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) introduced the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act (H.R. 4122) in February which, if passed, would prohibit private possession of big cats except in accredited zoos and sanctuaries. The non-partisan bill should reduce keeping these 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 wild animals and the remaining states have weak or no laws. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is working on introducing a companion bill in the Senate.

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The great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act (gAPCSA) which aims to end experiments on apes is progressing with 165 co-sponsors in the House and 14 in the Senate. You can contact your representatives by visiting: http://bit.ly/GreatApeProtection Wenka was born in a laboratory at orange Park on May 21, 1954. Five decades later, she is at Georgia at Emory University, still being used for research. Wenka is the oldest known chimpanzee in a U.S. lab. She has been experimented on and used to breed, having all of her babies taken from her. There are regular protests at the lab, find out more: www.freewenka.com World Week for Lab Animals: Campaigns Director, Matt Rossell, addressed a rally on the UCLA campus, with ADI also active in Europe and South America (pictured in Colombia). A white Bengal tiger was stolen from the Johnny Lam Circus amid a gun battle in Mexico. The robbery is believed to have been by a drug cartel. An oxford nightclub dropped plans to use a zebra following objections from ADI and residents.

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Popular vegan restaurant chain, Veggie grill generously hosted another fundraiser for ADI in March within Los Angeles’ historic Farmer’s Market. 50% of proceeds were donated for all customers who mentioned ADI when ordering.

The series ‘Luck’ starring Dustin Hoffman saw three horses so seriously injured on-set during the first season that they had to be euthanized. Public outcry over the deaths of the first two horses on location at Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, CA, went largely ignored by the executive producers, David Milch and Michael Mann. However, they finally pulled the plug after the death of a third horse in early March. Milch and Mann, state “While we maintained the highest safety standards possible, accidents unfortunately happen and it is impossible to guarantee they won’t in the future. Accordingly, we have reached this difficult decision” to cease all future production on the series ‘Luck’. American Humane Association's TV and film unit report that during the past five years, only one horse has died during film or TV production aside from the three that lost their lives on the set of ‘Luck’.

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Campaign News ADI case in the European Court of Human Rights In March ADI presented our case to the Grand Chamber of the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in an attempt to overturn a law preventing ADI advertising on television in the U.K. “At present the law effectively bans the broadcast of any advert on a matter of controversy, by anyone seeking to do something about that issue. So whilst primates and other animals can be used to sell products, it is

Above: ADI’s legal team present the case to the European Court of Human Rights

Right: Courtney Brothers Circus comes to town, shown here in Tramore, County Waterford.

not permitted to create awareness about the impacts on those animals. Our commercial advertised a pack which outlined the threats to primates. It was banned not because of content or accuracy but because of who we are. Our case revolves around the freedom of a company or organisation to enter into a national debate on television or radio – and the right to freedom of speech.” The iniquity of the situation was highlighted by the fact that at the same time soft drinks giant Pepsi were using a performing chimpanzee in a TV commercial. Whereas ADI’s TV advert creating awareness about the suffering of performing chimpanzees was banned. The case was heard by seven judges and the ruling is awaited.

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Elephant trainer crushed in Ireland When Courtney Brothers Circus began touring with five elephants, including parading the animals through town centres, ADI’s Ireland campaign partner Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) warned of the risks. First there was a near escape and within days an actual escape with a young elephant running through a parking lot and onto a road. Over 30 experts including field researchers, zoos, scientists, and animal protectionists attending the Summit for Elephants signed an ADI statement calling for an end to the use of elephants in circuses, noting: “This week’s escape of an elephant from Courtney Brothers Circus in Cork, Rep. of Ireland, could have easily resulted in disastrous consequences for both local people and the animal.” Two days later whilst attempting to break up a fight between two elephants a trainer was crushed 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 the circus and a trainer happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time." ADI and ARAN launched Stop Circus Suffering Ireland in 2007 following an ADI undercover operation there, and are now stepping up calls for a ban. John Carmody of ARAN: "With the frantic images of the elephant trying to escape on Tuesday from the circus hitting households everywhere, people across our nation is finally realising that circuses with animals have no place in Irish society. The writing is surely on the wall for those still clinging onto archaic animal acts."

Bogota bans bullfights In a hugely progressive move, Colombia’s capital city, Bogota, has ended bullfighting in the city. Colombia is now in the forefront of the worldwide campaign to educate the public about the iniquity of using 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 in a modern, compassionate and civilized society.

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Wildlife SOS India, battling against incredible odds and getting results. Various field research on wild elephants was presented by Keith Lindsay and Winnie Kiiru of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices, Caitlin O’Connell Rodwell of Stanford University, and Sharon Niel. Too often research of wild animals has little

through how our campaigns are moving us closer to bans in other countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Chile. This included ADI’s shocking exposé of the abuse of Anne the elephant with Bobby Roberts Circus. This led to Anne being moved out of the circus, a prosecution of the owners, and the British Government announcing they will introduce a ban. Matt Rossell, ADI Campaigns Director then joined in for a U.S. update on the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (HR 3359), and announcing the elephant ride victories that had followed our undercover exposé of Have Trunk Will Travel. The animal protection and legislative session also had presentations from: Martha Golar, Esq., Association of the Bar of the City of New York, on the role of bar associations; Denise M. Sofranko, DVM, Field Specialist for Elephants USDA/APHIS/Animal Care on how regulatory agencies operate and the public can work with them; Cindy Machado, from Marin Humane Society on inspecting circuses; other aspects of campaigning were covered by Matt and Delcianna Winders (PETA), Catherine Doyle (IDA), and Leonie Vestering, of Holland’s Wilde Dieren de Tent Uit; local campaigns by Katie Maneeley (The Animal Agency), Anna Ware (Atlanta Humane Society) and Las Vegas animal advocate, Linda Faso. Especially inspiring was the work of Kartick Satyanarayan and Geeta Seshamani, of

The Summit for elephants organized by our good friends at the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and oakland Zoo, is a biannual opportunity for those working to protect elephants to come together. This year the venue shifted from the ARK 2000 sanctuary to Oakland Zoo, attracting some 100 attendees and significant representation from the zoo industry. This makes it a unique coming together of animal activists, sanctuaries, researchers and the captive animal industry. Oakland Zoo is one of the progressive U.S. zoo’s promoting protected contact, and taking a stand on the keeping of certain species and opposing animal circuses and other inappropriate animal use. Summit attendees learned about the latest field research and about the plight of elephants from conservationists and activists working to save their habitat and protect them from poaching and abuse in captivity. Presenters and participants hailed from 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 Tim Phillips gave an update on our successful international efforts to end the use of animals in circuses. In two years, since the last Summit for Elephants, ADI has closed down every circus in Bolivia, saved the animals and secured bans in Greece, Peru and Ecuador. Jan and Tim also talked

Summit for the Elephants

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Above: Tim Phillips and Jan Creamer address the summit Below: Ed Stewart of PAWS introduces a session. Bottom: Pat Derby and Ed Stewart in their natural habitat, the magnificent ARK2000 sanctuary.

Jan is interviewed for a documentary on captive elephant issues during a break at the Summit.

University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Rob Atkinson, The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, Guy Lichty, North Carolina Zoo, Joel Parrott , Colleen and Gina Kinzley, Oakland Zoo, Margaret Whittaker, of Active Environment and, of course, Ed Stewart and Pat Derby of PAWS. There was an eye to the future with Sofie Goetghebeur and Tony Verhulst, of Elephant Haven who propose Europe’s first elephant sanctuary. Informed, inspired and well fed with amazing vegan fare from Native Foods restaurateur, Tanya Petrovna, participants ended the summit with a visit to PAWS ARK2000 sanctuary in San Andreas, also home of four of the lions rescued by ADI from Bolivian circuses.

impact on the lives of captive elephants – with circuses and some zoos simply shrugging off how they live in the wild as two different things. So this is a valuable forum for these researchers, to put their findings into this context. The practical issues of caring for and addressing the problems of elephants in captivity were tackled by Adam M. Stone, of Atlanta Zoo, Dagmar Gerdes, San Juan de Aragon Zoo, Mexico, Ariel Fagan, Tufts

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How I became an elephant How I Became an Elephant explores the treatment and threats to Asian elephants through the eyes of Juliette West, a 14-year-old girl from Los Angeles, and the work of Lek Chailert, rehabilitating elephants at the Nature Park, Thailand. The film centers on the most romanticized area of elephant abuse – traditional mahout training in Thailand – and features elephants working, performing and giving rides to tourists. Film of baby elephants being abused in the crush cage to break them is harrowing, but this is offset when some of the elephants are seen enjoying their retirement at the Nature Park. It also addresses elephant abuse in traveling circuses and features footage from ADI investigations. ADI’s relentless pursuit of evidence to show that these animals do not belong in the entertainment industry is graphic and disturbing, but should convince any audience that it time to call a halt. Pictured above are stills of some of the ADI investigations featured in the movie, and this is what happened to those animals: Clockwise from top left: (1) Santus Circus U.K. became completely animal free and Rhanee the elephant went to a zoo; (2) Chipperfield groom Steve Gills was jailed for abusing this elephant, and Tembo went to a zoo; (3) Mary Chipperfield was convicted and fined for beating a baby chimpanzee, her husband Roger Cawley convicted and fined for beating elephants, the company Mary Chipperfield Promotions (suppliers to Disney), closed and the elephants went to zoos; (4) Portuguese circus owner Victor Hugo Cardinalli jabs the elephant close to the eye over 20 times in succession. ADI’s investigation led to Portugal phasing out most wild animals in circuses (with a ban on acquisition and breeding). Sadly, these elephants remained with the circus. How I Became an Elephant, directed by Tim Gorski and produced by Jorja Fox, is now showing at film festivals across the U.S.

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First we went undercover to collect the evidence. Then a long campaign secured Bolivia’s ban on animals in circuses. People thought that was it. But a year later we were tracking down the circuses defying the law, and preparing to rescue the animals. Lion Ark is the live action documentary of how ADI went head to head with the Bolivian circus industry and won; the story of 25 lions from eight different circuses who found freedom in America; and the heartache, sweat and the exhilaration of animal protection on the frontline. Scheduled for completion later this year with a sneak preview of scenes at the Hollywood Hills fundraiser on october 13th see page 2.

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