Photography and animal disturbance (1 Viewer)

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-charged-harassing-manatee-posting-photos-193416248.html

Florida man charged with harassing manatee after posting photos
Reuters
A Florida man posted photos on Facebook showing himself hugging a baby manatee and was arrested on charges of harassing the endangered sea cow

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From what I could see from the article he wasn't a 'wildlife photographer', rather just some weirdo. Everyone now practically has a camera in some form or another, however, there are plenty of cases where so called wildlife photographers do cause animal disturbance.

My own experiences of many other photographers I come across is that they treat animals as some kind of picture trophy and have no concern (or real knowledge) of what they're photographing and this has been getting much worse since photography has become more accessible.

Hackneyed topic discussed to death in previous threads.

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fugl said:

Hackneyed topic discussed to death in previous threads.

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fugl said:

Hackneyed topic discussed to death in previous threads.

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Ouch! I hope they were more friendly than this thread.