Roll up roll up - the circus is in town. Doesn't everyone love them? The big top with its slapstick clowns, daredevil acrobats and ...... oh and performing wild animals. In 17 countries around the world, wild animals are not allowed in circuses but in France, the UK, the US and countless other countries this is not the case. Throughout the summer, across France you will see posters proudly advertising whichever circus is in town and without a modicum of compassion also displaying the wild animals that will supposedly amaze and delight you.
STOP. This is 2017 and I thought we had left such atrocities against Nature well and truly in the past. But no, this is not the case and this was once again brought to my attention when Phoebe, a friend down in Provence, sent me pictures of this circus hippo that she snapped in her local town. Look carefully too and you will see lions caged in small travelling wagons acting as part of the hippo enclosure.
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| Photo by Phoebe from Lou Messugo |
