Klook is Asia’s leading travel platform, specialising in international experiences and travel services. Wild Welfare initially partnered with them in 2023 with the aim of collaborating to prioritise animal welfare considerations across the tours that they offer. Over the course of the partnership, training webinars for Klook staff have been held on how to recognise practices which might compromise animal welfare within a touristic setting. Another key feature of the partnership is to advocate for the development and implementation of stronger animal welfare regulations within tourism-related industries. Additional evaluations of partner activities featured on the Klook platform have also been planned for the future.
Rebecca Keiller, Klook Senior Manager of Sustainability said of the partnership:
“We are delighted to have the support of Wild Welfare as we enhance our Animal Welfare Policy and ensure better practices across the globe when it comes to animal tourism, as well as to count on their expertise in a webinar series to educate Klook employees on the indicators of good animal welfare.”
Explore is a UK-based specialist adventure tour operator whom Wild Welfare partnered with in 2022. The partnership aims to support the implementation of the company’s animal welfare standards, as well as undertaking a review of the activities involving animals on offer by the company. In 2021 Explore launched its Animal Protection Policy, with the goal of creating a set of guidelines to follow and plans for how they intend to monitor all wildlife experiences moving forward.
Hannah Methven, Sustainability Specialist at Explore said:
“We committed to reviewing all animal interactions in 2021 to understand how they stood in relation to our policy. We gave them a green, amber or red grading. Red experiences were shown to compromise animal welfare and were removed from our tours immediately, while activities graded green were confirmed to have no negative impact on animal welfare, and are therefore good places to visit. We needed Wild Welfare’s help with reviewing the amber list, with all the activities that were less clear cut”