Archele Hundley--a former Ringling Bros. employee on the animal crew who's done PSAs for PETA (though, interestingly, is not a PETA member), has spoken in front of various groups about the plight of circus animals, and testified at the big federal lawsuit against...
Writer-reporter-poet essayist Charles Siebert, the author, most recently, of "The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward A New Understanding Of Animals"--which chronicles his extended encounter with a retired circus chimp named Roger at The Center For Great Apes, a...
Catherine Doyle--an elephant expert with In Defense Of Animals, an international animal advocacy organization, and a central figure in the national story about the debate that's erupted over the Los Angeles Zoo, its lone elephant, Billy, and the Zoo's plans to...
Tom Rider--who once worked for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus caring for the elephants, became a whistleblower after witnessing the abuse of the circus' elephants, and is now a central figure in a federal lawsuit brought against Ringling by multiple...
Pat Derby--co-founder of The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), which operates three animal sanctuaries in Northern California, among them the 2300-acre ARK 2000, where upwards of a dozen elephants live--discusses the needs of and challenges faced by captive...
Leslie Griffith--a veteran television journalist who's won numerous awards, including nine Emmys, and also won awards and acclaim for a TV piece she did on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and its abuse of Asian elephants--discusses the genesis of...
RaeLeann Smith--who works for People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as a full-time circus specialist--discusses The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus (three units of which had engagements in various parts of Florida pending, and had just...
Roland Smith--co-author with his wife Marie of the new children's book, "Zoo Is For Zookeeper: A Zoo Alphabet," a beautifully-illustrated work that provides two levels of animal info (one for toddlers, the other for much older kids & adults)--discusses his...
Kristal Parks, a Denver-based veteran activist and elephant advocate--who last year mounted a 12-day hunger strike in Denver while the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus was performing there, to call attention to the suffering of circus...
Co-founder and executive director of The Elephant Sanctuary, Carol Buckley discusses her nearly 30 years with Tarra (the Asian elephant she started working with as a college student) and how those experiences & stages of development with Tarra--while traveling...
