THE FIRST-EVER GLOBAL STUDY on the scale of welfare and conservation of wildlife tourism was just commissioned by World Animal Protection and carried out by the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU). You’re not going to be very happy about what they found.
They came back reporting that three out of four wildlife tourist attractions involve some form of animal abuse or conservation concerns. They also found that at least 550,000 wild animals are currently suffering because of irresponsible tourist attractions worldwide and that approximately 110 million people visit these attractions each year, keeping them very much in business.
