#suffering4selfies

Resources, studies and articles about wildlife tourism

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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. 

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Guidelines / advice

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• 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

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Investigations

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• National Geographic: Suffering Unseen: the dark truth behind wild animal tourism

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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 AnimalsThe 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

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Research

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• 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