Mainstay of wildlife tourism under fire from animal welfare activists
Activists see interaction with wild animals as cruel, but walking with predators and riding on elephants attract hundreds of thousands of tourists
12 March 2020 - 18:05
A cheetah strides up to third-generation animal trainer Shandor Larenty and lets him stroke its fur while he throws chunks of meat to the rest of the coalition at the Johannesburg Lion & Safari park.
At 25 years old, Larenty has been training wild animals to be docile around tourists for the past 13 years and said he would be devastated if he had to stop because of growing ethical concerns over tourist-animal interaction...
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