Food for Thought

Holiday Horror Show: animals suffering for tourists’ entertainment

''From riding elephants to selfies with tigers, your support is helping us expose the world’s cruelest animal tourist attractions.

Our groundbreaking report ‘Checking out of Cruelty’ has revealed that 75% of surveyed animal tourist attractions around the world have a negative impact on wild animals. That’s more than half-a-million animals living in misery.

The report is based on a first-of-its-kind global study we commissioned from the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU).

Alarmingly, many cruel attractions are receiving excellent reviews on Trip Advisor, the world’s largest travel review website. WildCRU investigated 50,000 reviews on TripAdvisor and found that 80% positively reflected attractions that involved some form of animal abuse or conservation concern...''