When Nature-Fakers Meet You Tube (and the Money)

Via The Mint (India). Photo by Arnab Mukherjee

"The Ugly Side of Wildlife Photography" — that title says it all. There is money-driven fakery . . .

In 2009, the image of a “jumping wolf” by photographer José Luis Rodriguez won for him the prestigious wildlife photographer of the year award conferred by the British Natural History Museum. It was later discovered that the wolf was trained for the shoot. Rodriguez was disqualified.

. . . and there is is ego-driven and money-driven fakery:

Insensitive photographers collude with greedy safari drivers and irresponsible forest guides to agitate and provoke animals for “action photography” for an award-winning shot. Conservationists opine that over time, such malpractices have altered the behaviour of large mammals, making them aggressive and stressful. This aggression is witnessed when the mammals migrate from one forest patch to the other through human-dominated landscapes.

And we're not even talking about drones here. 

EDITED TO ADD: Here is an example of the BBC manipulating video of birds to make them more attractive on the screen.