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SPRINGFIELD –State Senator Linda Holmes maintains her ongoing commitment to lead legislation to restrict owners of traveling animal acts from using wild animals in their shows. Her latest measure adding specific breeds to the list of banned species was signed into law Friday.
“These animals spend most of their lives in cramped, soiled cages, in severe and chronic stress,” Holmes (D-Aurora) said. “Extended periods in confinement and forced training to perform dangerous stunts are frightening and unnatural for them. In 2017, I passed legislation banning the use of elephants in circuses and other traveling exhibitions that do not provide adequate living conditions, and we’ve added more species to the ban over the years.”
