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The thing a lot of you guys don't seem to understand is that nature doesn't waste anything.
Nature is extremely proficient at making use of any decomposing organic matter. The nutrients in those caribou might have been a first meal for a starving mother grizzly - just out of hibernation - looking for nutrients to supplement her milk production for her 2 cubs, or fast-forward 400 years, and they might have gone to spur the growth of a seedling that's now a tall tree, supporting an entire ecosystem itself, offering shelter to hundreds if not thousands of macroscopic life forms, or whatever...
I'm sure any journalist working for Nat'l Geo is at least versed in the basics on ecological biology, and that helps him commit to the whole "noninterference" thing.
Besides, the animals' behavior - whether they live or die - might provide people back home with a better understanding of some detail of nature... and who is the journalist to interfere with that? Would you have the cameraman filming hundreds of lemmings jumping off a cliff to their death run out there and wave them all back screaming "Don't do it! It's nto worth it!!"?
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