Thank you for pledging to be elephant-friendly!
Thank you
By avoiding attractions that offer elephant rides and shows, you are helping to reduce demand for these cruel activities.
And because took our pledge, you are also telling travel companies to stamp out cruel elephant entertainment.
We will take these pledges to travel companies to show them that tourists are demanding change. Together, we are a global elephant-friendly movement.
Our response to COVID-19
While tourism and travel have come to a halt as a result of COVID-19, our work continues. Thanks to our supporters, we’ve been providing emergency aid to help elephants.
Read more: You’re feeding hungry elephants in Thailand!
The travel industry has been fueled by increasing demand by tourists to hold and interact with wildlife for selfies and close-up encounters. These interactions are not natural. They are driven by profit and hurt our relationship with wildlife.
We need to break this cycle of dependency and seize the moment to convince the travel industry to ‘build back better’. This term is widely used post-natural disasters to help address the root causes of a community’s vulnerability and prevent future disasters.
As we look to deliver emergency support for captive wildlife at tourist attractions, our work continues to encourage the travel industry to help us end the trade and exploitation of wildlife once and for all.
Hear from our Director of Campaigns Melissa Matlow:
The origins of COVID-19 have been traced back to the cruel exploitation of wildlife and the travel industry has an important role to play in the solution. By curbing the trade in wildlife for consumption, medicine, pets and tourism we can prevent future pandemics and end the suffering. We need to work together to change peoples’ relationship with animals.
We are working with a number of travel companies to introduce wildlife-friendly tourism policies and with your continued support we can convince many more to follow suit and keep wildlife in the wild.
Donate to support our work
We're building on our existing work and relationships to advocate for solutions to the root cause – the commercial wildlife trade. Your donation will support our programs to end the use of wild animals as entertainment, food, medicine and exotic pets.