Stop Circus Suffering in Ireland

Urgent Request From ARAN

Dear ARAN Friend!

Good news from Scotland. Just recently the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Ross Finnie, confirmed his intention to introduce a ban on the use of wild animals in traveling circuses in secondary legislation following the implementation of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill. This follows a successful campaign by the Born Free Foundation, Advocates for Animals and other animal welfare organizations to ensure that the complex needs of wild animals are not overlooked in national legislation. This is extremely encouraging news as days before that announcement we heard about similar plans from the UK government to ban ‘wild’ or ‘certain’ animals in circuses in the UK.

Now more than ever before have we actually a real chance of ending the total use of animals in Irish circuses and we need your help. Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) and Animal Defenders International has launched a nationwide campaign to ban animals in Irish circuses and already heaps and bounds of campaign work has taking place and is taking place including a huge mobile billboard, nationwide tables and demonstrations and talks and DVD showings and a public appeal to boycott animal act circuses. We are continuing to promote the investigation by ADI all over Ireland and Northern Ireland and we can now show the facts and get people to boycott animal act circuses. Every Irish TD and MEP have being sent a copy of the joint ARAN/ADI report and ADI’s circus investigation.

WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW!

If you like us here at ARAN & ADI want to see a complete end to the use of all animals in entertainment and indeed the circus now has never being such a better time to get involved in the campaign here in Ireland and there is several things you can do now regardless if you are already part of an animal protection group. Before we start work on a bill in the Dail to end the use of animals in Irish circuses we need you to write firstly to the Taoiseach and Minister for agriculture

Please write to the Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister

1) Mr Bertie Ahern, TD
Department of the Taoiseach, Government Buildings, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Phone: 01-6194020 / 4021 / 4043
Fax: 01-6764048
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie

2) Minister Mary Coughlan
Office of the Minister for Agriculture & Food,
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street,
Dublin 2.
Email: mary.coughlan@agriculture.gov.ie

We can’t do this on our own. We need your support for this campaign to end the use of all animals in Irish circuses, please help us today! Be sure to check out ARAN.ie for more weekly updates!!!