Pune: Rambo Circus Wins PETA India Award For Introducing Robotic Elephant
Pune: Rambo Circus Wins PETA India Award For Introducing Robotic Elephant
Pune – A Compassion in Circus Acts Award is on its way from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India to Rambo Circus which is currently in Pune in recognition of its innovative use of a mechanical elephant to dazzle visitors – using creativity, not cruelty, to bring animals to the stage. The circus is also making use of animal costumes.
“By using technology instead of a sad elephant to perform demeaning tricks, Rambo Circus is setting a progressive example for other acts to follow,” says PETA India Senior Policy Advisor Ujjwal Agrain. “PETA India thanks Rambo Circus for this compassionate move, and encourages the circus to take the step to go fully animal-free.”
Inspections by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) and investigations by PETA India have revealed that animals used in circuses are subjected to chronic confinement, physical abuse, and psychological torment. Whips and other weapons are used to inflict pain and beat them into submission, forcing them to perform frightening and confusing tricks out of fear of violent punishment. When they aren’t performing in front of boisterous crowds, animals used in circuses endure a lifetime of misery. Their access to water, food, and veterinary care is often severely restricted.
Two regulatory bodies, the Animal Welfare Board of India and the Central Zoo Authority (CZA), have recognised that animal circuses are inherently cruel and that the use of animals in circuses in India should be prohibited. PETA India has filed a petition in the High Court of Delhi seeking a ban on the use of animals in circuses through the central government’s notification of The Performing Animals (Registration) (Amendment) Rules, 2018.
PETA India—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow PETA India on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
