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Home » News from the Netherlands and Belgium » Loretta Schrijver warns about selfies with tigers in Thailand
Loretta Schrijver traveled to Thailand and was shocked by the appalling conditions in which the Thai elephants, orangutans, crocodiles and tigers live. These are tourist theme parks where the animals are often used for commercial shows.
She therefore calls on travelers not to go to such attractions or shows because wild animals are abused to entertain holidaymakers.
Loretta traveled to Thailand at the invitation of a World Animal Protection team.
Read the full report here: www.rtlnieuws.nl/boulevard/entertainment/loretta
Well-intentioned, but what is the value of this? Dutch tour operators have already removed elephant rides, etc. from the excursion program years ago. You will therefore hardly find Dutch and Belgians at that kind of attraction, we understand that such a thing is immoral and objectionable.
Another story is the buses full of Chinese and Russians who like to visit these kinds of attractions. Whether they care about Loretta Schrijver I dare to doubt. Anyway, such a PR trip to Thailand that is fully paid for by World Animal Protection, of course, Loretta won't let it go. After all, the sun in Thailand shines for everyone.
I am an animal lover and have done volunteer work for the Animal Protection for years, but I have my reservations about this kind of campaign, where you also address the wrong target group.
No renting pandas in China .. converting pasture land into a parking space and inviting the whole of the Netherlands for fat money .. but no one understands that ..
But those pandas, after an occasional anesthetic, are not sprayed flat with drugs to have their picture taken with tourists. They can also afford a little more space (I personally find most spaces too small in zoos), at least they don't have a chain around their neck.
An average parakeet in the Netherlands doesn't actually have such a good life in a cage, not to say anything about goldfish/mice/hamsters etc…. 😉
Indeed, you don't hear anyone about that, here it concerns millions of euros with entrance tickets at the busy hours of € 25.
I welcome any action that may lead to better conditions for these animals. So also an action like Loretta Schrijver. The fact that she did not contribute financially to her trip is irrelevant to me here.
There is nowhere in the ANP news report that Loretta Schrijvers did not contribute to her trip. Moreover, it says that Loretta Schrijver traveled to Thailand last week with a team from World Animal Protection. It does not state that she traveled to Thailand for World Animal Protection. It may as well have been a private trip.
Incidentally, her story seems mainly inspired by the World Animal Protection team she traveled with. Her claim that she took pictures undercover with a hidden camera does not seem plausible to me. Recordings can be made freely anywhere. Loretta has done nothing but promote World Animal Protection's "the Bigger Picture" campaign. Whether Loretta's “contribution” will contribute to better animal welfare is something I doubt.
Should a BNer get involved in this kind of business, it won't help Thais do what they want.
Fine, it cannot be protested or pointed out enough.
Even in the target group of the Netherlands and Belgium, not everyone is aware of the suffering inflicted on these animals.
Nico B
If someone does not understand that elephants and tigers are not born to entertain tourists in Thailand and should not live in captivity, then you can doubt the intelligence of that person.
True, however, those people can now also book a ticket for around €600. Something different for the Sjonnies and Anitas than the campsite with a toilet roll under their arm and old-fashioned bingo evenings.
It's nice to have a picture like that on the scrap wall. 😉
And then chickens, pigs and cows in the Netherlands????
And what about the crabs cooked alive in our chic (Michelin star) restaurants? Or the live slaughtered eels and ritually slaughtered sheep and goats? And the mosquitoes we killed????
Gerrit, Ha, Ha, you were just ahead of me. I also wanted to ask what about goats and sheep? Have you ever been to a circus show? Or the zoo such as Artis A'dam or Blijdorp R'dam? Do you keep a dog or cat? Are also animals.
Elephants have long been used in Thailand for work in the forests. They were later replaced by machines.
These animals do not come from the wild. When they became superfluous, they are used for tourists, etc.
It costs a lot of money to feed these animals, so a way to make money had to be found. This . At first they were partially deployed to walk the streets of Bangkok and also Pattaya so that the tourists could buy the bananas and feed them to the animals.
Fortunately, this practice has been abolished.
The animals are treated normally and they are not wild animals.
But a person like Mrs. Schtijvers does not know what he is talking about.
I do not agree, an elephant can carry a maximum of 100 kg on its back (head and neck are the strongest) such a scaffolding weighs at least 50 kg if not more and then a few full-fed tourists. That's not what I call normal treatment.
Elephant just eats the green in nature, for free and for nothing. Just look at the elephants in the wild. The same applies, for example, to the Thai cows, which simply graze along the road, on the roadside. It's a false argument that it's expensive to feed; the mahouts take advantage of it. I regularly see people begging with an elephant in the isan, so also just for the Thai people.
If you've ever seen them rein in small elephants with a razor-sharp hook, you realize how wrong it is to keep domesticated elephants as well.
Indeed Ger, it is mainly about the preliminary phase to be able to break the young elephants' own will so that they obey completely, that is done with kicking and hitting and yes no less with an iron bar with a sharp hook. There are several videos circulating on YouTube that are too disgusting to watch.
In addition, newborns are taken directly from the mother, yes, you know that also happens in cattle farming in the Netherlands, and think of the abuses in the slaughterhouses there, no one will deny that this must also be fought against, but why do some responders always again that looking away and justifying 'yes, but that also happens with us'. Is it therefore less bad what is happening in Thailand, no!
Except never understood that the symbol of Thailand, the elephant, is treated so questionably, but fortunately more and more Thai people have started to think the same about 'their animal' and refuse to visit such occasions.
I think that Henk Hauer does not know what he is writing about. Does he know the methods of taming elephants and never wonders why the tigers are so tame and lazy.
Then also tackle animal suffering in the Netherlands. A horse is also not born with a saddle on its back and it is also trained to carry or transport people, parakeets and canaries do not belong in the living room in a cage that is much too small, (gold)fish not in a fish bowl, hamsters not in a too small cage with a mill, etc.
Dogs and cats roam freely outside here in Thailand and are not walked on a collar or taught to sit on a litter box.
And also not sterilized, so that they are sometimes pregnant again while they are still nursing a litter.
The back of an elephant is not suitable for loading with a scaffold plus people. The mahout is always on the neck of the "tame" elephant.
On this blog I regularly see riding on the back of an elephant mentioned as a possibility.
Animals are not there to do tricks for (mammal) humans.
I hereby ask the editors to stop mentioning all these “attractions” in the articles or, even better, to advise against them as being animal-unfriendly.
Loretta talks about emaciated tigers at Sriritachi Tiger Zoo. Been there April 30th and only saw well-fed and cared for tigers. If Loretta's weight is taken as a "norm", ... yes, the tigers are skinny!!!
SHE makes undercover images, well we want to see them soon because in the photo she is not undercover in the least, it looks more like she enjoys the beautiful weather here better than in NL.