What is WSPA doing to stop blood sports and the use of animals in entertainment?
WSPA is opposed to the use of animals for entertainment. In addition to working against bullfighting and bear baiting, WSPA also works against the use of animals in entertainment in many part of the world. Dancing bears in India, cetaceans (dolphins, whales & porpoises) in captivity, and Japanese bear parks are just a few examples. Bullfighting In Catalonia, WSPA is running the Culture Without Cruelty campaign with member society ADDA, and there have been a series of successes in the region in recent years. Forty-seven towns, including Barcelona, have declared themselves anti-bullfighting and later in 2009 the Catalonian parliament is voting on whether to ban bullfighting altogether. In Spain, WSPA is supporting our member society Stop Our Shame (stopourshame.com) who are working to end the national subsidies (funded by Spanish taxpayers) given to the bullfighting industry, which total a staggering 530 million Euros a year. In France, three towns have recently declared their anti-bullf
