While Born Free has issued guidance for consumers and holidaymakers, and reiterated tourists can be pivotal in influencing change, it said the responsibility for leading on policy and helping shape perceptions lay with the travel industry itself and national governments, both whom it said must “step up”. Operators, it said, “must put an end to the promotion and selling of excursions that are responsible for putting financial gain above animal welfare”, while governments it added must commit to legislation “phasing-out the keeping of captive cetaceans”. The foundation points to its…
