Dr Jane Goodall, an animal behaviour expert, said: “It’s very fortunate there’s this pause and rethinking, and I think it had begun before the pandemic.
“As the world got wealthier and more people started to travel, they were destroying the world by sheer numbers. Culturally and environmentally, travel was going wrong.”
Goodall was speaking during the Retravel Live: Wildlife Deserve a Wild Life conversation with G Adventures’ founder, Bruce Poon Tip.
She identified two key ways to help conservation and animal welfare once the world started to “re-travel”, with managed measures in destinations and education at the time of booking about the visitor impact on animals.
