Bonisoli promises: We will remove animals from circuses. It will be the first decree in the coming months

No more animals in circuses: the minister of cultural heritage, Alberto Bonisoli, with a video posted on his Facebook page indicated the elimination of animals used in circuses as one of his priorities for action, as well as the first action that will be carried out next year. “I know that the wish of many of you is that animals are no longer used in circus shows,” the minister wrote to accompany the short clip. “It is a wish that I also share and will become a reality as soon as possible. It is one of my priorities. True, there is already a law, but the previous government failed to make the implementing decrees, that is, those regulatory instruments that allow that law to become operational. As soon as we came to government, we did not even find a draft. We, however, immediately set to work, but it will take some time.”

Propositions highlighted firmly in the video: Bonisoli declares that “everything stems from a law, which was passed in 2017, which provides for the removal of animals from circuses, to be carried out through a series of implementing decrees that are acts that the minister must do in order for a law to become operational.” He adds, “Unfortunately, I verified that in the first part of 2018 nothing was done. When I came here to the Ministry, unfortunately, I did not find anything, a semi-work, a draft, of these implementing decrees, so we had to start working from scratch.” Not only does the minister declare that the decree against animals in circuses will be the first on which work will be done in the coming months, “the first of the decrees that we will bring forward is the one that will take animals out of circuses,” stressed Bonisoli, who also disclosed that the decree will be developed in consultation with the Ministry of the Environment: “in doing this we will work together with my friend and colleague Sergio Costa, the minister of the environment. And together with him we will make sure that animals no longer work in circuses and we will find them accommodation in which they will be treated well and can have a life worthy of the name.”

The goal, Bonisoli concludes, “is to achieve this in the shortest possible time.”

Pictured: Georges Seurat, The Circus, detail (1891; oil on canvas, 185 x 152 cm; Paris, Musée d’Orsay)

Bonisoli promises: We will remove animals from circuses. It will be the first decree in the coming months

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