Several things, Grainne. First, you make an assumption that sanctuaries exist. They often don't and as with too many orphanges world wide, all too often those in the developing countries exist to do one thing: siphon off Western donations to pocket them while the creatures for whom those donations were made continue to suffer. If you are not well-traveled, if you don't investigate, and I do both, you don't know these things. Second, cultures. There's a good reason Dian Fossey was murdered. We Westerners do NOT understand other cultures, and we do not have the right to dictate our version of what is right onto them. That is one of the hardest possible lessons to learn as a traveler. Suffice it to say that I have more than my fair share of watching animals brutalized. If you want to be a Justice Warrior in a country where you are not only the extreme minority but all the locals see you as a threat, have at it. It's hard lesson indeed. Third, the vast amount of time it would take for me to track down these people (you have no idea, my server ate years of emailis for one thing) and then to engage in some kind of negotiation and then put together a GoFundMe campaign, please. I don't argue your points but there is no way that I could, or would, because I would do nothing other than this for the rest of my life, like trying to sandbag the MIssissippi during a flood. You have to pick your battles, Grainne.
As to being triggered, which it appears you have said, to that please see this:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-if-trigger-warnings-dont-work. There is no point when they don't work and in fact they do more harm than good.
Someone somewhere at some point is going to get triggered by something someone wrote, even if the intention is to do good. We writers cannot possibly control Dear Reader's often complete misread of what we write (I am not saying you did, just making a larger point). We can't. Otherwise we would all have to stop writing entirely, out of fear that someone, somewhere, will recall a trauma because some writer described the perfect meadow. As a survivor of incest, multiple rapes and sexual assau;lt, I could fairly claim to be triggered by nearly every damned news story I see. Am I going to go after all the major news outlets? No. I am going to do the Deep Work to control my own reactions, not make others responsible for my feelings, which makes me a victim a billion times over. However, that is my path and mine alone. I can't speak for anyone else.
At some point, you and I own our own reactions. I've muted true crime stories for this reason. However, I do not call an author out for triggering me or causing me pain for some paragraph. She didn't wake up that morning with the intent to do me harm. I own my own reactions and feelings.
If I didn't wish to feel pain for our natural world, I would not read, nor would I financially support after my death the great work of Dr. Carl Safina. In the same book he describes the beauty of parrots, and also what we are doing to destroy them. This is called education. The truth of who we are and how we treat paradise is difficult.
It sounds as though you might wish to get involved in animal sanctuary work. That is not my path. I am not moved in that direction. My path is elsewhere, but that doesn't mean I don't care. I do not have the decades left to me to invest in trying to save the world's animals, in part because I can see how the decks are stacked. I admire your empathy; we share that, but telling me to do work for which I think you are far better suited doesn't get us anywhere. I do what I do best. I report with heart, I story-tell with heart, that is my journey. I work on animals all over god's creation. If you want to save them, I support you wholeheartedly. But please do not tell me that I should. I wouldn't tell you what you should do, for we don't know each other, and that doesn't respect your own sacred journey.
There are plenty of good people doing animal work all over the world. If this is important to you, I would encourage you to look into it. To that, Grainne, one over-sixty friend of mine was invited to work at a true elephant sanctuary in Thailand, and when she came home, she became deeply involved with the wild horse project in America. That strikes me as a potential point of interest. I am not telling you that you should. However, rather than tell me what I should do, if this speaks to you very deeply, I would look into this. There are a few folks doing very good work in this area.
My path is elsewhere. I appreciate your comments, and I hope you hear my response in the intent it is meant: I hear you, but there is a boundary here. Please choose your own path, as I have chosen mine, and I wish you godspeed on that path.