Bill Banning Traveling Animal Exhibitors From Using Wild Animals Heading to Pritzker’s Desk – WCIA (Champaign)

Bill banning traveling animal exhibitors from using wild animals heading to Pritzker’s desk – WCIA (Champaign)

Holmes bans abusive traveling animal exhibitors from exploiting wild animal species

SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Linda Holmes maintains her ongoing commitment to lead legislation that would restrict owners of traveling animal acts from using wild animals in their shows through a measure she passed Wednesday to add specific breeds to the banned species list. “I passed legislation in 2017 to ban the use of elephants in circuses and other traveling exhibitions that cannot provide the animals adequate living conditions, and we’ve ad…