
Tens of thousands of wild animals are being beaten, chained and abused, all for the sake of entertaining tourists.
Don’t add to their misery.
Tens of thousands of wild animals are being beaten, chained and abused, all for the sake of entertaining tourists.
Don’t add to their misery.
Right now, an estimated 550,000 wild animals are being exploited to entertain holidaymakers around the world. Many are beaten, chained and abused as part of the lucrative global trade in wildlife tourism.
It’s no secret: some of the biggest holiday companies sell wild animal ‘experiences’ like swimming with dolphins, riding elephants and petting big cats.
These are animals cruelly wrenched from the wild, or bred in grim conditions in captivity.
They endure a lifetime of misery all to give tourists a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experience, or a photo for social media.
For example:
🐘 Elephants are torn from their mothers as babies, tied up, beaten and forced to walk in chains. They’re made to carry tourists on rides, or let people wash and bathe with them.
🐬 Dolphins are kept in small, barren tanks and made to swim with tourists, or perform circus tricks and routines for busy, noisy public shows.
🐯 Tigers are bred into a lifetime of exploitation. Kept in chains and sometimes drugged, they’re petted as cubs and used as props in holidaymakers’ photos
🦥 Sloths and other wild animals are ripped from their habitats to be passed between tourists for selfies, in chaotic environments.
Wild animals should be living free in their natural habitat, not being exploited and abused for money.
Whatever a tour provider says, all wild animals suffer when they’re forced to entertain tourists, and many are appallingly abused.
If you can hug, ride, touch, wash or take a photo with a wild animal, the chances are it has suffered some kind of harm.
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