wrt wildlife,
The planet is not a zoo, here for our amusement. Each creature is doing the best it can, in it's circumstances. If you photograph an Ibex, how do you get there, how much disturbance are you causing? Who benefits, you, or the Ibex?
There is interference, by the 'do gooders', into areas they have no understanding of - oddly enough, another post of Barry's- the magpie. The rspb spokesperson, (the 'do gooder') was quoted as saying something like 'the magpie eats fledglings and other birds eggs, but it has a redeeming feature of controlling pest'. Now, leaving aside the definition of what we say are pests, The magpie maybe eats a few hundred eggs a year. So, how many pests would those birds have eaten, if they had hatched and lived? Also, I am pretty sure that the birds do not selectively eat only what we consider as pests. ( I think it was China where they introduced 'a sparrow killing program' a few years ago.)
But. the magpie has increased, because it has adapted to the world as it is now. That is what we do. In its own way, it will change its world. Our worlds overlap. We changed the concept of the magpie, it is not controlled as it used to be. If the magpie succeeds, and drives off other competitors, why should we want to interfere? Its system will stabilise. Do we want to bring back the controls again? Where is this idea of 'fairness' coming from, why do we want to impose that onto other systems?
So, what to do? I think it would be far better, if you were to, say, send the money you would have spent on travel, to a school local to 'Ibex land' for them to buy a couple of cameras, to let the kids take the photo's of 'their Ibex'. Then, maybe you want to promote and publish those in the west. Use the cash from the sales to demolish the evil, greedy, large multi-national corporations, educate the folk local to you, the ones that are causing the changes. Then, the time you saved in travelling, you can spend that in demolishing the fashion crap, or whatever, associated with 'dog breeding', or improving the lot of intensively farmed food animals. As it is, I can find all the photos of 'wildlife', that I or anyone else could possibly need, thanks to today's technology...
Best wishes,
Ray