Online network connects journalists with biodiversity information
Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
By Roger
The Biodiversity Media Alliance aims to boost the quantity and quality of media coverage of biodiversity issues.
Biodiversity Media Alliance is a Ning social network for media professionals who are covering biodiversity issues. The International Institute for Environment and Development, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Internews created the site to help connect journalists with sources of information about biodiversity.
The site’s tagline is “Linking Journalism With the Web of Life.” According to Mike Shanahan, press officer at IIED in London, “Journalists worldwide now have a vital new resource to help them report on the world’s biodiversity, what its decline means for humanity, and how it can be tackled. The Biodiversity Media Alliance’s online network builds bridges between journalists and the information they need to tell this story. More than 700 biodiversity experts* have already joined the network, including scientists, policymakers, NGO staff and indigenous people from some the most biodiverse parts of our planet. This new partnership between the IIED, Internews and the International Union for Conservation of Nature aims to boost the quantity and quality of media coverage on biodiversity around the world.”
*Editor’s Note: Including Dr. Stuart Pimm.
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