Monday, 2 September 2019

'It's scary': wildlife selfies harming animals, experts warn

Concern in New Zealand that trend of taking photographs with penguins and other is having an impact on feeding, breeding and birth rates

At the International Penguin Conference in New Zealand, the experts were worried. Among sobering discussions about the perils of the climate crisis and habitat loss, the unlikely issue of wildlife selfies photobombed the agenda, with increasing concern that the celebrity-fuelled search for that perfect shot is affecting animal behaviour.

Professor Philip Seddon, the director of Otago University’s Wildlife Management Programme, said: ‘We’re losing respect for wildlife, we don’t understand the wild at all.”

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2zMc8Nm

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