Resources, studies and articles about wildlife tourism
For a quick guide to which wild animal attractions to avoid, World Animal Protection’s Ten of the world’s Cruellest Attractions is a must-read.
- Association of British Travel Agents: Global Welfare Guidance for Animals in Tourism
- Southern Africa Tourism Services Association: Guidelines Against Hands-On Animal Encounters
- Lonely Planet: How To Be A Responsible Wildlife Tourist
- Fodor’s No Go List 2020: Avoid Elephant Riding
Investigations
Media / opinions
- Frontier: The Dark Side of Wildlife
- Tourism Review: Scandalous Torture Just For A Selfie
- Thailand Elephants: Training methods for captive elephants
- World Animal Protection – The World’s Cruellest Attractions
- Moving Animals: Worked To Death: Elephant Riding In Sri Lanka
- Costa Rican Government: Stop Animal Selfies
- Born Free Foundation: Zoochosis
- Prezzi: Effects of Captivity on Wild Animals
- The Dolphin Project: The Effects of Captivity
- Campaign: Born Free campaign reveals shocking reality behind South Africa’s ‘Instagram lions‘
- The Wildlife Society – Wildlife Loving Influencers Get Too Up Close and Personal With Animals
- The Guardian: Wildlife selfies’ aren’t cute. They encourage cruelty and animal suffering
- Holiday Weekly: Suffering For Selfies – Iconic Wild Animals In Trouble
- Biome Ecology Magazine – Suffering For The Sake of Selfies
- World Animal Protection: The harmful impact of wildlife selfies in the Amazon
- Animal Welfare Institute: Wild vs Captivity
- CBS News: Thailand’s Tiger Temple
- The Phuket News: New Tiger Park Opens
- BBC: The Tiger Gift That Horrified Polish Rescuers
- Cruel Wildlife Performances Continue At World Zoo Association’s Member Venues
- Travel Pulse: Elephant Dies of Exhaustion Carrying Tourists
- Sea Turtles’ Chance To Beat Extinction Destroyed By a Selfie
- Fodor Travel: Should You Take That Sloth Selfie?
- The Times of India: How The Wellbeing of Elephants Affects Wildlife and Humans
- EcoWatch: How Social Media Often Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade
- Medium.com: Instagram Has An Animal Abuse Problem
- Elephant Journal: Instagram’s Animal Abuse Problem
- FStoppers: Nipples Are Banned, but Animal Abuse and Brutal Violence Are OK: Instagram Is Broken
- ScoopWhoop: Animal Abuse At Big Fat Indian Weddings
Research
- Australian Geographic: How Captivity Affects Brain Size of Animals
- US National Library of Medicine: Chronic Captivity Stress in Wild Animals
- Academia: Efffects of Captivity on The Behavior of Wild Animals
- Science Direct: Pathologic Conditions in Captive Animals
- Zoo Animal Welfare Education Centre: Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals
- Born Free Foundation: The Zoochotic Report
- INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing: Impact of Tourism on Wildlife Conservation
- The British Psychological Association: Learned Helplessness in Animals In Captivity
- World Animal Protection: The Case Against Marine Animals In Captivity
- Psychology Today: The Harmful Effects of Captivity on Orcas
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution: Ecotourism harms wildlife
- Impact of Visual Context on Public Perceptions of Non-Human Primate Performers
- Content shared on social media platforms can impact public perceptions of wildlife
- Analysing Public Perceptions of ‘Cute’ Videos of Threatened Species
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit: The Effects of Tourism on Wildlife
- Specific Image Characteristics Influence Attitudes about Chimpanzee Conservation and Use as Pets
- Elephant Calf Mortality Rate Through ‘Taming’ Three Times Higher than 1970s
- Tourism Concern: Animals In Tourism
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit: Responsible Animal Tourism
- UCLA: EcoTourism May Have Adverse Impact on Conservation
- Animal Tourism Finland: Social Media Impact on Animal Tourism
- US National Library of Medicine: Health & Welfare of Captive Elephants
- Virginia Tech: Wild Tigers in Captivity: A Study of the Effects of the Captive Environment on Tiger Behavior