Julie spent 40 years in captivity before being released into a 1,000-acre sanctuary, a charity says.

The first resident has arrived at the Pangea sanctuary in Alentejo, presented as Europe’s first large-scale elephant refuge.

Julie the elephant was taken from the wild in southern Africa when she was five and joined Cardinali Circus in Portugal for ...

Nicole the Asian elephant was part of an elderly trio of zoo pachyderms, but the rest of her herd died last year A former circus elephant will spend the remainder of her years at a sanctuary in ...

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There was some BIG news this week -- literally -- as a circus elephant escaped from her pen and roamed the streets of a Montana city. The escape has garnered mixed reactions. While some said it was ...

Animal rights protesters gathered outside an arena in Pendleton to protest the use of an elephant in a traveling circus.

An elephant got loose on Tuesday in Butte, Montana after escaping a traveling circus. The animal, reportedly named Viola, left the Jordan World Circus, which was set up at the Butte Civic Center, and ...

The golden age of the circus is long past, and gone are the days when bombastic advertisements would draw thousands of clamoring fans eager to see the exotic spectacles they promised. While that may ...

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