A tiger cub is chained for tourists to take photos with him.

The cruelty keeping wild animals in the entertainment industry

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Right now animals suffering in the name of tourist entertainment need your help.

Wildlife tourism sees elephants, tigers, lions, macaques and thousands more innocent animals taken from their mothers as babies, broken through cruel ‘training’, and sentenced to a life of dismal captivity.

Elephant

She spends her life in chains, and was beaten and starved as a baby to allow people to ride on her back.

Orangutan

He is forced through pain and fear to dress up and perform tricks.

Tiger

She is drugged and hit into submission every day to allow people to pet her and take photos.

Only cruelty keeps them there.

While tourists remain unaware of the abuse going on behind the scenes, the animals forced into lives as photo props and performers suffer every day of their existence.

Help them break free from the cycle of abuse.

A life entertaining tourists is no life for a wild animal. We are determined to stamp out the abuse, but we can’t do it without your help.

Your contribution could:

  • Educate tourists about the truth behind the scenes
  • Lobby tour operators to stop selling tickets to wild animal shows
  • Re-train local people to find new ways of making a living, without hurting animals
  • Develop sustainable solutions for moving wild animals trapped in the entertainment industry into the wild or sanctuaries

Please become an animal protector by donating to save animals from cruelty

A life entertaining tourists is no life for a wild animal. We are determined to stamp out the abuse, but we can’t do it without your help.

Bear at Libearty bear sanctuary, Romania

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Tiger chained up

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