Why wild animals deserve a wild life

Wild animals in captivity and exploited for tourist entertainment are deprived of a life where they can express their full range of emotions, feelings, and natural behaviours. In this episode we’ll find out why wild animals deserve a wild life and why they should never be in captivity or farmed. We will find out how sentient wild animals suffer in captivity for tourist entertainment and what the travel companies are doing to offer responsible travel options.

In this episode, we talked with:

• Dr. Helen Lambert: Animal welfare scientist and sentience expert, returns to this episode to explain what wild animals feel in captivity and what is learned helplessness.
• Carol Buckley - Elephant Aid International: Explains her journey working with elephants in captivity and how that led her to create a Sanctuary for Tara (the first elephant she worked with) and for the recent resident Mundi.
• Janek Andre - We Whale: Janek shares his experience about how a visit to a dolphinarium at 17 years old marked him forever. After years of looking for opportunities to improve the lives of dolphins in captivity, today he is offering whale and dolphin watching options to tourists who want to see these animals in the wild waters of Tenerife, Spain.
• Sofie Lund - Nordic Leisure Travel Group & Spies: Sofie’s personal experiences as well as seeing customers seeking more responsible travel options led her to partner with World Animal Protection Denmark to explore wildlife friendly travel options, here she explain more about it.

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