The hides

Two hides for nature photography

The WWF Oasis La Malcontenta e il Lupo has two hides for professional nature photography.

The hides have been designed to have the least possible impact on the surrounding environment: they are anchored to the ground with metal screws and placed in areas that are suitable for wildlife observation but where no substantial changes to the ecosystem were needed.

It is we who adapt to the environment and not the other way round. The same should always happen when practising nature photography: you immerse yourself in an environment, you are a guest, you observe, you are patient and finally you shoot.

When you are alone in a natural environment, the silence, the moving of branches and shrubs, the smells, the sound of small animal footsteps, birds suddenly taking flight from a tree, everything makes our wait unique, and it does not matter if we fail to take the photo we wanted: the great raptor will come, and meanwhile today it was the particular light striking a fern that opened up our imagination. In the end, if you love nature, you are repaid for everything.

The wells hide

Hide number 2 (the wells hide) is in a small clearing reached by crossing another wood in the Oasis. All the woods of the protected area are left to evolve naturally. This wood, facing north, opens at the end of the slope into a small open area. The area is surrounded by ferns, horsetails and bramble bushes. Many diurnal birds of prey fly over the clearing. Roe deer and fallow deer, badgers, porcupines, martens and squirrels are also very frequent. Here too a stool and a shelf are available.