Wild animals in circuses now banned Wild animals (lions, tigers, elephants ...) will not be allowed in circuses under new provisions adopted Friday by the Council of Ministers in the framework of a draft law to the Minister Onkelinx wearing various provisions on animal welfare. These measures come after the Council of animal welfare in 2011 reported difficulties in applying the legal standards of housing animals in circuses (lack of space, lack of opportunity for swimming, no congeners for some gregarious, non-compliance with the temperature requirements). In addition, the new provisions are also born of a desire to reassure the neighborhood circuses regularly bothered by all kinds of pollution: children frightened by lions in a cage, noise, meat carcasses abandoned ... The bill provides that only certain animals will now be allowed in circuses, subject to compliance with minimum standards of accommodation laid down to ensure their well-being. This is actually the following animals: cattle, buffalo, pigs, llamas, camels, camels, ferrets, rabbits, dogs and cats, pigeons, geese, chickens, parrots, parakeets and ducks, horses, ponies and donkeys, sheep and goats. Gaia, the animal rights organization, welcomed the initiative of the day as a "huge step forward, closing 10 years of struggle." But for Maurice AGNESSEN, organized in Liege European Circus Festival ban wild animals in circuses is to destroy the profession in Belgium. "These animals are the basis of traditional circus." The circus sector intends to respond before the formalization of the ban on wild animals in performances. There should be a "distinction between the circus actually mistreat these animals" and those who follow the rules already very strict in this area and whose tamers treat animals as their own children. "They are regularly on the move, play and reproduce better than in zoos." For AGNESSEN family, the ban will be a problem in the sense that it is mainly elephants and wild, yet it is them that "children and families", which constitute the majority of the public come to admire. Source: rtbf.be. Veronica!
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:27:46 +0000
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