Why Defenders of Killer Whales Are Worried About China
Late last year, the circus came to Hengqin. Trained elephants from Thailand, Russian jugglers and monkies, Kazakh horses, Bengal tigers, and Cuban acrobats descended on the once-sleepy island near Macau for China’s “First International Circus Festival,” twelve days of death-defying stunts by humans and animals. And they were only the warm-up act.