The ethics of capturing leopards - Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth - BBC animals

[flautines]

The purpose of these collars is to track them, and it saved their life several times when they were too near a human village. If they leave the animal alone, and hadn't been for that collar, they wouldn't know when he is approaching a human village, and would have been killed by villagers.

I love these animals, and I feel really sad (as they do) when they put the collar, but thanks to that, they have saved dozens of these animals from being killed.

[mrnawanshehr]

Is it in Pakistan ??

[bravo45]

@mrnawanshehr Yes. It was a BBC documentary and was in high definition.

[Ronanal]

so the whole mistake those people make is that when they are talking about "this animal" they always mean the kind, the species and never the individual.....that's sad.

[Ronanal]

Never seeing an animal as an individual creature and acting according to that, but as only one of a species to be preserved.

[Ronanal]

And this so much honored Sir Attenborough agrees with those methods. How sad this civilized world is.

[Ronanal]

Sickening to see those stupid people doing their ego thing, for the well being of the animals. No.

[LesCrapio]

people can do better

[adncn76]

Amazing Snow Leopard, wild life in Pakistan is fantastic!

[althakafi]

just amazing...!!

[dreamrecorder]

Its so disheartened to see researcher doing all these, battery collars, tranquilizer, cage and tagging and all that. . . Please please let nature take its course and study and view them from a distance. We really dont want them to lose their magic and mystic. It just dosen't justify doing all that to protect the animals. Do they ever need our protection? We human make our own assumptions which usually are predispose to failure.

[Shumeshi]

Scientists like learning about the nature and will do a lot of crazy stuff to achieve their goals. It's all about what the people want and what makes them happy. Whether it's morally right to do one thing or another is only a matter of personal preference. But there's very little difference between those who own factories and those who say they want to fight global warming. In the end neither will the life on Earth be destroyed by the global warming nor will it be saved by the activists...

[Colyo62]

You're too general when talking about human interaction with nature. We're protecting them from other humans... the one that hunt them to protect their livestock.

[dreamrecorder]

Is anyone a researcher or wild life analysis here. If there's any, can you please hook me up and bring me on board for such research study and exploration mission trip.

[chickboy98]

how cute

better than the other one