Video: Skeletal Bears Beg for Food From Visitors at Indonesia’s Bandung Zoo
Video: Skeletal Bears Beg for Food From Visitors at Indonesia’s Bandung Zoo

In a horrifying scene captured on camera, emaciated sun bears desperately beg for food scraps from visitors at Indonesia’s notorious Bandung Zoo.

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Sir Roger Moore to PM: The Day Has Come to Ban Animal Circuses
Sir Roger Moore to PM: The Day Has Come to Ban Animal Circuses

Sir Roger Moore has a message for British Prime Minister Theresa May. The actor, humanitarian, and animal advocate urges her to introduce legislation banning wild-animal circuses.

The Pits: Cruel Roadside Zoos Prevent Bears From Hibernating
The Pits: Cruel Roadside Zoos Prevent Bears From Hibernating

Bears have an innate need to lie low at this time of the year—but many are still on display to keep the cash registers ringing.

N.C. Police Threaten to ‘Arrest’ PETA’s Robotic Bear (Photos)
N.C. Police Threaten to ‘Arrest’ PETA’s Robotic Bear (Photos)

What seems to be the problem, Officer?

Casey Affleck’s 7-Foot-Tall Robotic Bear Takes on Cherokee Bear Zoo
Casey Affleck’s 7-Foot-Tall Robotic Bear Takes on Cherokee Bear Zoo

PETA’s moving, speaking robotic bear captivates children and encourages parents to steer clear of bear pits.

Thousands of Swedes Call for Ban on Exotic Animals in Circuses
Thousands of Swedes Call for Ban on Exotic Animals in Circuses

Swedish MPs agree: Wild animals shouldn’t be forced to entertain us.

Rescued! 13 Bears Get a New Lease on Life
Rescued! 13 Bears Get a New Lease on Life

Thirteen rescued bears have a new, beautiful life. 

Bosco the Bear Didn’t Deserve to Suffer and Die at Pymatuning Deer Park—Tell the Roadside Zoo to Retire All Remaining Animals!
Bosco the Bear Didn’t Deserve to Suffer and Die at Pymatuning Deer Park—Tell the Roadside Zoo to Retire All Remaining Animals!

THESE animals who died at Pymatuning Deer Park deserved better—but YOU can take action by helping us shut this crummy roadside zoo down.

Video: Elderly Bear Beats the Odds With Stunning Transformation
Video: Elderly Bear Beats the Odds With Stunning Transformation

For some 30 years, Fifi suffered in a tiny, rusted cage—but you’ll BEARly recognize her now!

PETA Wants Clayton Stoner to Take the Michael Vick Empathy Course, Too
PETA Wants Clayton Stoner to Take the Michael Vick Empathy Course, Too

The furor over trophy hunting has been ignited anew as NHL player Clayton Stoner faces charges and protests in the killing of a popular grizzly bear.

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Why Are These Bears Living in a Concrete Pit?
Why Are These Bears Living in a Concrete Pit?

An ailing bear waits for help in vain in a Tennessee tourist trap.

44 Celebrities to Ringling: Retire All Exotic Animals NOW
44 Celebrities to Ringling: Retire All Exotic Animals NOW

Three years is too long for Ringling’s elephants to go on suffering, and the circus isn’t retiring its other animals at all. See the petition that 44 celebrities have signed.

PETA Sends Flowers to Hunter
PETA Sends Flowers to Hunter

When a hunter was mauled by a grizzly bear, we decided to send him flowers and ask him to stop hunting for good.

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Days-Old Tiger Cub Used as Fair Prop
Days-Old Tiger Cub Used as Fair Prop

A tiger cub is being forced to work the fair circuit instead of nursing from his mother.

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Tregembo Zoo Is Tremendously Awful
Tregembo Zoo Is Tremendously Awful

A bear is left to suffer from a painful and likely blinding eye condition at North Carolina’s Tregembo Animal Park.

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