Nothing can be more disgusting than these fictionalised programs where everything is stage managed. Unfortunately there are people who like these kinds of programs. There is a big audience for these programs.

Creating natural history programs is time consuming, needs lot of patience, and knowledge about animal behaviour. And it costs lot of money. On the other hand creating those Man Vs wild kind of programs is much much cheaper and can be done fast.

I am told that for a BBC program a well known presenter had carried a snake in his pocket to a place in rajasthan and had wanted to go through the motions of releasing it so that he can catch it for his camera crew to film it. It is a well known fact that many, if not all, are stage managed. Yes it is disgusting. Even if I were to go broke, I will never do such kind of films.

In both Discovery as well as NGC, you will find programs that talks about how dangerous an animal is. For example you will hear in how many seconds a leopard can kill a man or how the leopard will climb onto you or jump on to you to kill you etc etc. Most of these programs teach us to fear the wild animals. Will you love someone whom you fear? Will you love a demon?

As far as killing animals are concerned, I don't think these incidents would be reported to the authorities. For example killing snakes should land a person in jail. However I haven't heard anyone being arrested for killing a cobra or a python.