T/CGDF 00008-2020 Natural photography ethical guidelines
T/CGDF 00008-2020 Natural photography ethical guidelines
Basic Information
Scope
Scope: This standard specifies the basic principles, normative content, ethical bottom lines, and ethical guidelines that photographers should follow when photographing objects such as the environment and wildlife (especially birds) in the wild. This standard applies to all nature photography activities. Main technical content: Nature photography focuses on landscapes and wildlife in natural environments, using photographic equipment to depict nature. Ethical nature photography has positive significance in enhancing cognition and aesthetic education, inspiring people's desire to protect the ecological environment, promoting biodiversity conservation, and fostering sustainable development. However, there are currently serious problems in nature photography, such as staged photography, the industrialization of staged photography, habitat destruction, and even harming wildlife for photography or falsifying works. Therefore, comprehensively improving photographers' cultivation and establishing professional ethics, establishing the concept of ecological photography that respects nature, and enhancing people's attention to photographic ethics and morality are conducive to protecting biodiversity and promoting the civilized development of nature photography. This standard specifies the basic principles, normative content, ethical bottom lines, and ethical guidelines that photographers should follow when photographing wildlife (especially birds) in the wild. The main content covered by this standard includes: Foreword; I. Scope; II. Normative referenced documents; III. Terms and definitions; IV. Basic principles; V. Normative content 5.1 Respect nature and prohibit staged photography; 5.2 Animal ethics; 5.3 Behavioral conduct; 5.4 Avoid "human-animal cross-infection"; 5.5 Ethical review; 5.6 Other requirements; VI. Nature Ethics Review Committee.