DutchNews.nl,
Wednesday 03 September 2014
(NOS/ANP) |
The council
officials have written to junior economic affairs minister Sharon Dijksma
urging her to bring in a ban as soon as possible, in line with the coalition
agreement of 2012.
Councils
are not currently able to ban circuses which have wild animals from their
jurisdiction and need national legislation to make it possible.
Wild
animals in circuses have ‘little room to live in, spend a large part of the day
in a cage or chained up… Entertainment involving animals gives the audience,
children in particular, a bad example about how to treat animals,’ news agency
ANP quotes the letter as saying.
The letter
was drawn up by Joost Eerdmans who has animal welfare in his portfolio in
Rotterdam. Other signatories come from Almelo, Gouda, Haarlem and
Schiedam.
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