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Elephants Don't Belong In The Circus

Jul 7, 2015
1 min read

Using video footage obtained by or submitted to CWI in 2015, we produced "Elephants Don't Belong In The Circus" a short one-miute educational video which provides the general public with a non-violent synopsis of why the use of elephants in traveling entertainment is cruel. Please watch and share!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtEfcPQLEac

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