Ringling Brothers will be phasing elephant acts out their line-ups, and say that by 2018 they will be a thing of the past.

Ringling Brothers will be phasing elephant acts out their line-ups, and say that by 2018 they will be a thing of the past.
Alana Feld, the Vice President of the circus company, told the Associated Press that the move is in part due to changing public attitudes towards the animals.
In recent years there has been growing concern about the treatment of the pachyderms, and even a number of lawsuits.
Further, at local levels a number of ordinances that President Kenneth Feld calls ‘anti-elephant’ and ‘anti-circus’ have been passed.
Rather than pumping money into fighting them, he prefers see the funds go to the care and preservation of the animals.
The 43-member herd belonging to the circus will be moved to a Florida center for conservation