{"id":8945,"date":"2015-11-20T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:24:18","slug":"welsh-minister-takes-a-stand-against-wild-animal-use-in-circuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/welsh-minister-takes-a-stand-against-wild-animal-use-in-circuses","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Minister takes a stand against wild animal use in circuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9025\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9025\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2.jpg\" alt=\"Use of wild animals might be banned in Wales\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9025\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2.jpg\" alt=\"Use of wild animals might be banned in Wales\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/wild-animal-circus2-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Use of wild animals might be banned in Wales.\u00a0\u00a9DirkJan Ranzijn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welsh minister announced that circuses using wild animals in their shows could be banned following an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspca.org.uk\/getinvolved\/campaign\/bigstop\">RSPCA petition <\/a>which gathered more than 7,500 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Animal rights campaigners protested against the performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/lion-tiger-show-south-wales-10217495\">The Thomas Chipperfield Lion and Tiger<\/a> show scheduled in Porthcawl last month and triggered its cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing back the debate about animal welfare, more than 7,500 people signed an RSPCA petition to ban the use of wild animals in circuses in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh Farming and Food Deputy Minister, Rebecca Evans says: \u201cWhilst Wales would not be the first nation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopcircussuffering.com\/circus-bans\/\">ban wild animals in circuses<\/a>, with bans existing in Europe, Asia and Latin America; it would be the first nation within the United Kingdom to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International circuses visiting Wales include the Chinese State Circus and the Moscow State Circus, which are both animal-free, suggesting that the ban wouldn\u2019t have a negative impact on the tourism industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure is growing to install CCTV in slaughterhouses in Wales following RSPCA petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":9018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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