AN international taskforce co-ordinated
by global equine welfare charity the Brooke has launched a responsible tourism
campaign at Petra, the UNESCO World Heritage site in Jordan.
The Care for Petra campaign aims to improve
tourist attitudes and behaviour towards working animals, working children, and
the historic monuments of Petra in Jordan, where injured or weak donkeys and
horses are used to transport tourists around the site.
The
campaign provides advice for tourists on ways to prevent animal suffering at
the site, and encourages visitors to enjoy the monuments on foot wherever
possible.
Very
young children work on the site selling souvenirs and offering donkey rides.
The awareness campaign asks visitors not to buy items from children or give
them money, as this encourages them to stay out of school.
Go Holiday editor David Kernek comments: This charity, clearly, does good work, but its
arguments should not be put only to the tourists who ride on these
cruelly-treated creatures and who buy mostly trash from the children at tourist
sites such as Petra. This is also a problem in Greece where in towns such as
Lindos on Rhodes, less-than-healthy donkeys are used to carry tourists – many
of them obese – up to ancient sites on clifftops. It should be the
responsibility of public authorities to ensure that animals are properly looked
after, and that children are not forced to run these shoddy businesses.
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