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By Jon Blewitt,Sir David Attenborough,Harriet Nimmo,John Blewitt

the second one e-book within the Converging global sequence, Media, Ecology and Conservation specializes in worldwide connectivity and the position of recent electronic and conventional media in bringing humans jointly to guard the world's endangered flora and fauna and preserve fragile and threatened habitats. New media bargains possibilities for like-minded contributors, group teams, companies and public organizations to benefit and paintings cooperatively for the nice of all species. one of many key topics of this publication explores the real factor of ways new details and communique applied sciences mediate the flora and fauna, and our figuring out of our position in it. by way of exploring the position of movie, tv, video, images and the net in animal conservation within the united states, India, Africa, Australia and the uk John Blewitt investigates the politics of media illustration surrounding vital controversies akin to the exchange in bushmeat, whaling and habitat destruction. The paintings and acheivements of media/conservation activists can be found inside a cultural framework that at the same time loves nature, reveres animals yet too frequently ignores the uncomfortable realities of species extinction and animal cruelty.

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