Communicating Endangered Species

Eric Freedman is Director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and Professor of Journalism at Michigan State University, USA. He is the co-editor of Environmental Crises in Central Asia (Routledge, 2015) and Biodiversity, Conservation and Environmental Management in the Great Lakes Basin (Routledge, 2018) and he has won a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Sara Shipley Hiles is Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She is a journalism educator and an award-winning journalist who specializes in environmental and investigative reporting with more than 25 years’ experience in the field. David B. Sachsman holds the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. He is managing editor of Applied Environmental Education and Communication, an international journal, editor of the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism (Routledge, 2020), and author of Environment Reporters in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2010).

1. Exploring the Terrain: Connecting communication, public policy, and the brink of extinction Part I: News Coverage of Endangered Species around the World 2.Endangered Species, News, and Public Policy: A history 3. The Extinction Crisis: Why Words Matter 4. The Wolves of Fate: Media coverage of the Isle Royale "genetic rescue" 5. How African are African Elephants? Reflections on poaching and conservation in African and UK newspapers Part II: Images of Endangered Species: Communication and Public Opinion 6. Turtle Tourism and Conservation: Conflict and concord on a Hawaiian beach 7. The 25 Most Endangered Primates List: Impacts on conservation fundraising and policy 8. You Better Believe It: Rhino horns are a bloody risky business PART III: Media Emphasize the Charismatic: Ignoring the Rest 9. Front Pages Are for the Charismatic: The case of the cute giant panda 10. Polar Bears as Cultural Symbols: Threatening Monsters and Threatened Species
11. Societal Attitudes towards Hellbender Salamander Conservation: The roles of traditional and social media Part IV: Environmental Public Policy 12. (Not) Saving the Great Barrier Reef from Disaster: Media then and now 13. Communicating Shark Extinction: Celebrity-endorsed conservation campaigns and public policy in China 14. Manatees and fossil fuel power plants: The paradox of endangered species laws 15. Conservation on Private Land: The Endangered Species Act 16. Preserving endangered species: Communicating, reporting, and framing the extinction crisis