Our Wild World

Today with conservation journalist, Ted Williams, author of the monthly TNC “Recovery” column, we expose dark truths hidden right before our eyes. Oft disguised as wild beauty and conservation– there is an ugly underbelly invading social and print media: Canned ‘wild’ life photography of our iconic carnivores, and its crossover into canned hunting. This inhumane business of keeping wild animals in subpar enclosed conditions. In these days of instant gratification, rather than doing the arduous work, lazy journalists and photographers can take a short cut and rent live exotic animals in outdoor settings and often editors and readers are none the wiser. When these captive animals are no longer useful, they are then turned over to the ‘game-ranchers’ for canned hunts. We then cross over into the really ugly business of killing contests, targeting coyotes, foxes, bobcats, wolves and lions in the name of livestock protection.