[Tweeters] an important article

[HAL MICHAEL via Tweeters]

While I don't see this as a great problem here, there are times. Especially (here) around owls, especially Short-eared and such. 

We have been on a number of African safaris and crowds are handled in different ways even with rules. Perhaps the best was this last June when there was a pride of lions on a Cape Buffalo next to the road. Folks were enforcing a 5 minute window for close by viewing (the carcass was like 10' from the edge) and the guides complied.  

One of the big differences between Botswana and Kenya/Tanzania is that Botswana limits the number of visitors.  You rarely run into other folks while on drives unless it something super-special such as Leopard or Cheetah. Even then, it is maybe three or four vehicles.  So, limited access can control crowds but at the cost of access.

I have also spent a lot of time observing, photographing, and hunting and have learned to recognize when animals are being crowded and when they are not.  This, in my experience, is not on a species basis but on an individual animal basis.  Obviously, simply staying a good distance away is probably preferable.
 

Hal Michael
Board of Directors,Ecologists Without Borders (http://ecowb.org/)
Olympia WA
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> On 09/30/2024 11:04 AM PDT Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:

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> I hope this link works. I don’t think we have this magnitude of a problem in this region, but it’s worth thinking about.

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> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/26/social-media-posts-endangered-species-capercaillie-birders-aoe

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> Dennis Paulson

> Seattle

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