2015-04-11 - Hartford, United States.
Antique dealers, collectors, auctioneers and museum representatives gathered in Connecticut last month to oppose a bill seeking a total and uncompromising ban on the sale of ivory.The Raised Bill No. 6955 goes significantly further than last year´s federal ban on the commercial sale of elephant ivory and rhino horn or the state legislation recently adopted in New York and New Jersey.
2007-06-05 - Hartford, United States.
A bill that would have drastically changed the way circuses control elephants has failed in the General Assembly, but the chief proponent said Tuesday she'll revive the controversial issue again next year. Rep. Diana S. Urban, D-North Stonington, said she had 55 votes — all Democrats — in the 151-member House, so she will abandon the bill that would have banned the use of stainless steel bars called bullhooks.
2007-04-24 - HARTFORD, United States.
A bill aimed at protecting circus elephants from abuse is continuing to lumber through the legislature. Today, the Judiciary Committee voted 22-17 in favor of the legislation, which makes it a crime to use any "implement or device" on an elephant that "may reasonably be expected" to harm the animal.
2007-02-21 - HARTFORD, United States.
State Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, and State Rep. Stephen Fontana, D-North Haven, will hold a press conference at 12:30 p.m. today in Room 1B of the Legislative Office Building to talk about a bill they've introduced to eliminate the mistreatment of captive elephants. Specifically, the bill would outlaw using bullhooks or chains on elephants. Joining the lawmakers will be former Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus animal provider Archele Hundley and other animal rights groups repr...
2005-03-04 - HARTFORD, Connecticut, United States.
They may appear to be passive pachyderms, but performing elephants can be deadly, say some lawmakers who want to ban them from traveling shows and circuses in Connecticut. Elephants are trained through pain, force and fear, they say. Such experiences, combined with the effects of captivity, drive some to go on rampages and trample human beings, sometimes to death, activists say. "When they're not in their little pens, they're chained up," said Tom Rider, a former ...
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