Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Ruth Jones (Labour), on Monday, 7 July 2025, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 14 members in total.

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Protections for the welfare of wild animals in tourism

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.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1608 

Session

2024-26

Other sponsors

Jim Shannon

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Ben Lake

Siân Berry

Adrian Ramsay

Subjects

Animal welfare Protection Tourism Wildlife

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk