National Geographic USA – June 2019
Tourists on the Rio Negro in Brazil swarm an Amazon dolphin lunging for a baitfish dangled by the tour operator. Many of the num ...
Tourists on the Rio Negro in Brazil swarm an Amazon dolphin lunging for a baitfish dangled by the tour operator. Many of the num ...
I’ve come back to check on a baby. Just after dusk I’m in a car lumbering down a muddy road in the rain, past rows of shackled e ...
Meena’s life is set to follow the same trajectory as many of the roughly 3,800 captive elephants in Thailand and thousands more ...
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A macaque pauses during a performance at Monkey School, a roadside zoo near Chiang Mai. The monkeys are trained to ride a tricyc ...
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In a photo studio at Samut Prakan Croco- dile Farm and Zoo, an employee changes a young chimpanzee’s diaper before putting him b ...
like Meena, and they make up a lucrative seg- ment of the booming global travel industry. Twice as many trips are being taken ab ...
We sit with Kalamapijit on a balcony outside her office, and she explains that when Western- ers, especially Americans, stopped ...
island of Phuket. We watched polar bears in wire muzzles ballroom dancing across the ice under a big top in Russia and teenage b ...
performing tricks, but many see swimming with captive dolphins as a vacation rite of passage. Katie Regan has wanted to swim wit ...
TOURISTS SEE ELEPHANTS GIVING RIDES AND DOING TRICKS. THEY DON’T SEE THE ANIMALS BEING ‘BROKEN’ AND TAUGHT TO FEAR THE BULLHOOK. ...
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T O HAVE THE once-in-a-lifetime chance to see rare Black Sea dolphins, people in the landlocked town of Kaluga, a hundred miles ...
Black Sea bottlenose dolphins can’t be caught legally without a permit, but Russian fishermen can catch belugas and orcas under ...
THE DEMAND FOR EXOTIC ANIMALS THAT TOURISTS CAN TOUCH HAS LED TO ANIMALS BEING TAKEN ILLEGALLY FROM THE WILD. SOME, SUCH AS AMAZ ...
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Beluga whales perform in a pop-up aquarium under an inflatable tent in Saratov, Russia. Not all wildlife tourism entails going t ...
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