Protecting wildlife protects people and jobs. By pledging to become a wildlife-friendly travel company you are showing your commitment to rebuilding a more responsible and resilient industry.
Join us to build a better industry by ending wildlife exploitation
Protecting wildlife protects people and jobs. By pledging to become a wildlife-friendly travel company you are showing your commitment to rebuilding a more responsible and resilient industry. An industry that understands that by not offering cruel and inhumane wild animal entertainment, you are protecting wildlife, people and the travel industry from future pandemics.
Travel companies all over the world are boldly making this commitment, moving away from selling and promoting captive wildlife entertainment, such as riding or bathing elephants, taking a tiger selfie, walking with lions, or swimming with dolphins.
You can work with World Animal Protection to help you transition towards a wildlife-friendly future by taking our wildlife-friendly pledge alongside other travel companies:
As a Wildlife Friendly Company, we pledge to:
- Review our product offers to determine if we are supplying anything where wild animals are being used anywhere primarily for entertainment.
- Create a time-bound plan to help protect wild animals by influencing significant changes in supplier practices and / or phasing-out wildlife entertainment from our promotions and offers.
- Adopt an animal welfare policy for our business and share this policy with customers and staff.
- Provide our customers, if possible, with responsible wildlife offers where animals in the wild, at genuine sanctuaries or wildlife-friendly settings have the freedom and ability to exhibit a wide range of natural behaviours and tourists can observe them from a safe and respectful distance.
- Promote responsible tourism amongst our customers to enable them to be wildlife-friendly travellers and advocates.
Click here to view our growing list of worldwide wildlife-friendly travel companies.
You can also work with others in the travel industry to drive industry standards and government legislation to better protect wildlife through tourism via the Coalition for Ethical Wildlife Tourism. This coalition drives industry standards and government legislation, protects wildlife and proves the demand for animal friendly tourism. Learn more about CEWT here.
You can also see our list of over 240 elephant-friendly travel companies here.