Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public
Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that
takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture
depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and
natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in
practical terms. Extinction isn't new. However, the pace of
extinction is accelerating globally. The International Union for
Conservation of Nature classifies more than 26,000 species as
threatened. The causes are many, including climate change,
overdevelopment, human exploitation, disease, overhunting, habitat
destruction, and predators. The willingness and the ability of
ordinary people, governments, scientists, nongovernmental
organizations, and businesses to slow this deeply disturbing
acceleration are uncertain. Meanwhile, researchers around the world
are laboring to better understand and communicate the possibility
and implications of extinctions and to discover effective tools and
public policies to combat the threats to species survival. This
book presents a history of news coverage of endangered species
around the world, examining how and why journalists and other
communicators wrote what they did, how attitudes have changed, and
why they have changed. It draws on the latest research by chapter
authors who are a mix of social scientists, communication experts,
and natural scientists. Each chapter includes a mass media and/or
cultural aspect. This book will be essential reading for students,
natural resource managers, government officials, environmental
activists, and academics interested in conservation and
biodiversity, environmental communication and journalism, and
public policy.
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