Skip to content
Research Article Open access CC BY 4.0

Animal Welfare in Ecotourism

Carys Louisa Williams, Silvia Michela Mazzola, Giovanni Quintavalle Pastorino

Annual Research & Review in Biology · pp. 1–5 · Published 3 Nov 2017

10.9734/ARRB/2017/37440

Abstract

The negative welfare experienced by some animals within the tourism trade has been well publicised across various mediums, from modern scientific literature and industry audits to public outcry on social media. However, options for sustainable, enjoyable and responsible animal based tourism do exist. The difficulty lies in providing sufficient and effective information to tourists to allow them to make decisions to visit attractions which match their ‘eco’ conservation and animal welfare expectations. Through the highlighting of successful fieldwork case studies, impactful discussions and future research can be pursued.

Ecotourism animal welfare conservation educational elements.

References (20)

  1. 1 Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living” [DOI]
  2. 2 Pandemic Human Viruses Cause Decline of Endangered Great Apes [DOI]
  3. 3 Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife [DOI]
  4. 4 Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden [DOI]
  5. 5 The Customer Isn't Always Right—Conservation and Animal Welfare Implications of the Increasing Demand for Wildlife Tourism [DOI]
  6. 6 Ecotourism and the Conservation Ethic: Recruiting the Uninitiated or Preaching to the Converted? [DOI]
  7. 7 Protected area economics and policy [DOI]
  8. 8 A Critique of FAWC’s Five Freedoms as a Framework for the Analysis of Animal Welfare [DOI]
  9. 9 Unforeseen Effects of Supplementary Feeding: Ungulate Baiting Sites as Hotspots for Ground-Nest Predation [DOI]
  10. 10 Winter food provisioning reduces future breeding performance in a wild bird [DOI]
  11. 11 Developing a Code of Conduct for whale shark interactions in Mozambique [DOI]
  12. 12 TAKE ONLY PHOTOGRAPHS, LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS: the environmental impacts of wildlife tourism
  13. 13 An Evaluation of Deep Ecotourism and Shallow Ecotourism [DOI]
  14. 14 Global regulations and local practices: the politics and governance of animal welfare in elephant tourism [DOI]
  15. 15 Seychelles: A case study of community involvement in the development of whale shark ecotourism and its socio-economic impact [DOI]
  16. 16 Proximity and animal welfare in the context of tourist interactions with habituated dolphins [DOI]
  17. 17 The economics of global ecotourism.
  18. 18 The relativity of ethical issues in animal agriculture related to different cultures and production conditions [DOI]
  19. 19 Re-introduction of Bornean orang-utans to Meratus protected forest, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
  20. 20 Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems [DOI]

Cited by 3

Showing 1 of 3 known citations — external sources report more than can currently be individually listed.

Article metrics

Real usage data collected on this platform.

83

Page views

0

PDF downloads

28

Outbound clicks

3

Citations

Views over time

Views by country

Approximate, from request IP at view time — not citizenship or institution. Countries with fewer than 5 views are grouped as "Other".

Traffic sources

Referring site, by host.

Views and downloads exclude known bots/crawlers. Citations combines this platform's own DOI-resolved index with each external source's own reported total — see Cited by above for individually listed citing works. Last refreshed 0 seconds ago.