Currently, options for managing wildlife feeding include prohibition, ignoring the problem or
managing the feeding . However, bans are unrealistic for some types of feeding, and current
approaches towards regulated and unregulated feeding programs lack consistency. A more promising
approach may be to change public perceptions about wildlife feeding through repeated education and
regular enforcement. Forms of feeding that are dangerous to animals, for example, by creating disease
risk or human-wildlife conflict, need to become socially unacceptable. The proposed evaluative
framework may assist policy-makers, educators and wildlife managers in establishing which feeding is
acceptable, so that unacceptable forms can be targeted through regulations and social pressure