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Vintage remember that baiting for a few days or even a week with a small amount of food is unlikely to cause harm unless the animal is being attracted well outside of its territory or if its on a territorial boundary. Small food like that would be an opportune moment for the animal to partake in the food and if the food isn't there ever again the animal shouldn't come to harm.
The real damage is done when its regular for weeks to months and when the amount itself is substantial. At that point the sudden ending of food can be detrimental unless timed with other factors (eg cutting off food to coincide with migration).
And hockey players CAN be baited. First off you've got a natural lure of the pitch where you know, with 100% certainty that they will turn up there. After or before you can even bait them with money or other perks to get them to pose for you.
Wildlife is different and to be done safely does require more planning and thought and awareness. But it can be done if one chooses to do it. Natural lures and hot-spots do exist, but can sometimes be inaccessible or impractical or even dangerous to use. Meanwhile sometimes the angle isn't right as in the example earlier of a bear.
I think baiting, much like camera traps; gets a lot of flak because the "wildlife photographer" is often viewed as a bit of a godly power of stalking. That they are able to twist their bodies into insane locations and become one with the natural world to get amazing photos. When in actuality traps, tricks, bait and more are often used to aid such work.
Done responsibly nothing gets hurt; animals go on their normal lives and photographers get some photos.
There are irresponsible individuals though and they are teh reason that there are laws against some forms of photography. In the UK there's a list of birds you cannot photograph at the nest without licence
The real damage is done when its regular for weeks to months and when the amount itself is substantial. At that point the sudden ending of food can be detrimental unless timed with other factors (eg cutting off food to coincide with migration).
And hockey players CAN be baited. First off you've got a natural lure of the pitch where you know, with 100% certainty that they will turn up there. After or before you can even bait them with money or other perks to get them to pose for you.
Wildlife is different and to be done safely does require more planning and thought and awareness. But it can be done if one chooses to do it. Natural lures and hot-spots do exist, but can sometimes be inaccessible or impractical or even dangerous to use. Meanwhile sometimes the angle isn't right as in the example earlier of a bear.
I think baiting, much like camera traps; gets a lot of flak because the "wildlife photographer" is often viewed as a bit of a godly power of stalking. That they are able to twist their bodies into insane locations and become one with the natural world to get amazing photos. When in actuality traps, tricks, bait and more are often used to aid such work.
Done responsibly nothing gets hurt; animals go on their normal lives and photographers get some photos.
There are irresponsible individuals though and they are teh reason that there are laws against some forms of photography. In the UK there's a list of birds you cannot photograph at the nest without licence
