Protections for the welfare of wild animals in tourism
Tabled 7 July 2025 by Ruth Jones
That this House is concerned about the extreme suffering inflicted on many wild animals exploited in the tourism industry, which are frequently subjected to cruel and unnecessary so-called training techniques, often involving beatings, stabbings and other physical punishments, coercive control, conditioned unnatural behaviours, harmful captive environments in which animals may be subject to long periods of isolation and food deprivation, and stressful interactions which can lead to injury and death of the animals themselves and of tourists and others who interact with them; and calls on the Government to urgently table the activity regulations required to implement the Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023, nearly two years after its passage into law, to prohibit the widespread and persistent advertising and sale in the UK of cruel tourist activities abroad.
Signatories (37)
- Ruth Jones Sponsor
- Jim Shannon
- Neil Duncan-Jordan
- Adrian Ramsay
- Siân Berry
- Ben Lake
- Ann Davies
- Llinos Medi
- Liz Saville Roberts
- Rachael Maskell
- John McDonnell
- Ellie Chowns
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Liz Jarvis
- Luke Myer
- Wera Hobhouse
- Chris Law
- Irene Campbell
- Ian Lavery
- Chris Bloore
- Steve Witherden
- Sorcha Eastwood
- Dave Doogan
- Emma Lewell
- Lorraine Beavers
- Seamus Logan
- Ian Byrne
- Graham Leadbitter
- Brian Leishman
- Jess Brown-Fuller
- Wendy Chamberlain
- Sarah Gibson
- Ian Roome
- Lisa Smart
- Ben Maguire
- Jamie Stone
- Steve Darling