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Mexico bans wild animals in circuses — but there's no place for them to go
A new law in banning the use of tigers, elephants, zebras, lions and other exotic animals in circuses comes into effect next week.
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Unfortunately, even if they end up having to euthanize most of them, it's still a positive change considering how much suffering is caused by this type of exploitation.
A long term solution that creates a short term problem. I can dig that...
Exactly! In this case, the long-term is very significant.
I do not think, however, that we can discount the short-term, but I feel like solutions can be found. Not having this law come into effect would create more problems for the same species of animals that are currently in trouble.
And if all pets were outlawed, they would face the same problem.
Yep theres a problem but a few zoos have taken in some animals since the law was done out of nowhere by the green party for elections they didn't exactly plan anything
Hmm, seems like the only place circus animals could go to would be a zoo. I would imagine caring for large animals like elephants and giraffes would need a lot of planning, resources and space. That's not easy to fit into a budget.