article_snippet: Wildlife experts argue the programme is exploiting the animals, with many reacting in ways that show Wildlife experts are stressed.
article_snippet: Producers have also been accused of courting disaster by placing potentially dangerous animals including lions, elephants and zebras alongside inexperienced celebrity zookeepers.
article_snippet: Chang Jiwen, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of Resources and Environmental Policy Institute, said animals should not be used for the sake of entertainment and called for tougher legislation. 
article_snippet: We cannot use We emotions to design and manipulate the animals, animals are not there to be harassed for the entertainment of people,' Chang Jiwen, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of Resources and Environmental Policy Institute,  said. 
article_snippet: 'We should not start from the emotional needs of We or for effect or for ratings of the show to interfere with the lives of animals. '
article_snippet: When they see these strangers, they might become afraid and take action because of the stress, which is very dangerous to human beings,' said wildlife activist Wang Hui, from Animals Asia, a Hong Kong-based campaigning group.
article_snippet: Critics also argue it is setting a bad example when in January, the State Forestry Administration issued a notice, forbidding tourists to have close contact with endangered wild animals.
article_snippet: It follows a trip by the Duke of Cambridge to China earlier this month where he wanted to highlight the fight to conserve and save endangered species in China.
article_snippet: Contact with the animals is a serious issue and when we were creating the show, we did so with the knowledge of the laws and regulations.'
article_snippet: It went on to say that the regulations set by the State Forestry Administration were referring to 'rare and endangered wild animals'.
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  Experts warn unnatural tasks causing untold damage to animals .
  