, which offers interactions with stingrays and sloths. Zoos, aquariums, and animal attractions “are among the most popular on our marketplace,” says Groupon spokesperson Nicholas Halliwell. But if those merchants are “not in good standing” with the proper oversight bodies, “we take action—including removing them from our platform.”
The complicated needs of primates “cannot be adequately met at these facilities where their lives revolve around being used for human interaction,” Dylewsky says.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. The new WAP report notes that in November 2021, Expedia, which scored 64 percent, banned sales of tickets to dolphin and whale performances and interactions—but it still offers.
Klook, Booking.com, the Travel Corporation, and Trip.com didn’t respond to requests for comment. Airbnb responded with their animal welfare guidelines. GetYourGuide didn’t respond, but a spokesperson‘Mistreatment behind the scenes’promotes speed breeding, in which young cubs are prematurely removed from their mothers’ care to allow for faster reproduction. As cubs grow too big for petting, they’re often killed or kept in cramped, barren enclosures, Cameron Harsh says.
i rhibk i remebred that one image
As much as it is 'fun' to go and explore and experience nature, this activity disrupts their daily routines. Lets step back and let these majestic animals live in peace, and let the professional documenters 'bring' them to us.
i can see the positives and the negatives of both these activities! it all depends on the what, who and where! Either way humans think they are safe which they are not!
This is flyfishing at work.
Agreed I think it is also important to note that these are wild animals. They are also very dangerous in many circumstances. Maintaining the proper space between these majestic creatures is not only respectful, its necessary to ensure the health and safety of all parties involved
This should not be allowed as tourism
Yes it doesn't help the animals at all with so many people around them, they can't hunt, for one and you people are stressing them.
YES! It’s HOW THEY SUBSIDIZE THEIR PARKS. HELLO!
When you can no longer make money doing what ever it is, then and only then, will people change.
Gotham Knights would be imploring to animal handlers that the use of wildlife attraction feed would reciprocate the damage made with the use of zoo feed on undomestic birds. Reminding that an undomestic bird in every way, like an domestic bird is an, 'Retainer.'
Why is it that, is a tourist attraction?