公共关系在野生动物保护中的作用:乌干达实例

IF 1.7 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
Simplicious J. Gessa, William Tayeebwa, Charles Tumwesigye, Jessica M. Rothman
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在发展中国家,促进野生动物保护的宣传工作不仅对于吸引野生动物栖息地附近社区的参与非常重要,而且在全国范围内也至关重要,因为城市居民通常不会接触到野生动物。在此,我们建议媒体和公共关系专业人士可以促进国内旅游活动,并以鼓励公众保护野生动物的方式让社区参与进来。我们概述了一些正在进行的成功举措,这些举措源于战略传播原则,旨在促进乌干达的野生动物保护。首先,与记者、名人和政界人士一起开展旅游活动,以提高人们对野生动物及其对国家经济价值的认识。这些举措向主流媒体强调了保护区,并鼓励国内旅游。其次,在全国各地举行游行,组织校内运动队,以及举办公共讲座、社区和学校活动,以动员更多的保护意识。最后,我们讨论了通过全国性报纸的媒体框架进行战略传播在宣传野生动物保护重要性方面的作用。这些举措很可能导致过去十年中前往国家公园的国内旅游人数明显增加,乌干达公众对野生动物的支持率也有所提高。
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The Role of Public Relations in Wildlife Conservation: Examples From Uganda
Within developing countries, awareness efforts that promote wildlife conservation are not only important to engage communities neighboring wildlife habitats, but they are also critical nationally because urban dwellers are not usually exposed to wildlife. Here, we suggest that media and public relations professionals can promote domestic tourism activities, and engage communities in ways that will encourage the public to protect wildlife. We outline examples of successful ongoing initiatives we have used that stem from the principles of strategic communication to promote wildlife conservation in Uganda. First, tours with journalists, celebrities, and politicians have been launched to support awareness of wildlife and their economic value to the country. These initiatives highlight protected areas to the mainstream media and encourage domestic tourism. Second, parades around the country, intramural sports teams, as well as public lectures, community and school events are held to mobilize additional conservation awareness. Lastly, we discuss the role of strategic communication through media frames by the national newspapers in promoting the importance of wildlife conservation. These initiatives have likely led to the demonstrated increase in domestic tourism to national parks over the past decade and increase in support for wildlife by the Ugandan public.
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Tropical Conservation Science
Tropical Conservation Science BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION-
CiteScore
3.60
自引率
5.90%
发文量
16
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Tropical Conservation Science is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews of broad interest to the field of conservation of tropical forests and of other tropical ecosystems.
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