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Animals & Media

A Voice for the Voiceless

Welcome to

Animals & Media

A Voice for the Voiceless

Welcome to

Animals & Media

A Voice for the Voiceless

Welcome to

Animals & Media

A Voice for the Voiceless

Welcome to

Animals & Media

A Voice for the Voiceless

Animals & Media Mission

We created these style guidelines for media practitioners in the professions of journalism, entertainment media, advertising, and public relations to offer concrete guidance for how to cover and represent nonhuman animals in a fair, honest, and respectful manner in accordance with professional ethical principles. Given the scope of industrialized animal oppression and environmental crisis globally, we believe fellow animals, as sentient living beings, warrant not only increased attention in media and popular culture, but coverage that encourages human society to transform our relationships with various animal species in ways that foster less domination and exploitation and more respect, care, and ecological responsibility. The lives and habitats of the world’s animals are largely dependent on the cultural values and worldviews promoted in the media, such as encouraging humans to identify as animals ourselves.

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Number of Animals Deaths Caused by Average American Eating Omnivorous Diet in Adulthood

0 Cows
0 Pigs
0 Chickens
0 Fish/Shellfish

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Expert List

Journalists and documentarians, please use this expert list to identify credible sources for your stories. The following experts can speak intelligently on issues affecting nonhuman animals, taking the animals’ perspective into consideration.

Christina Risley-Curtiss, MSSW, PhD

Christina Risley-Curtiss, MSSW, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University
Areas of Expertise: animal abuse, the correlation between animal abuse,child abuse and domestic violence, interventions with children who animals, animal-assisted interventions, animal-human interactions, why we should be concerned about animal...
Lori Marino, PhD

Lori Marino, PhD

Executive Director, The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy
Areas of Expertise: neuroscience, zoos and aquariums, welfare of wild animals in captivity, marine mammal intelligence, primate intelligence, elephant intelligence, cognition and intelligence in farm animals, nonhuman rights and personhood,...
Jonathan Balcombe, PhD

Jonathan Balcombe, PhD

Biologist, ethologist, and author in Ontario Canada.
Areas of expertise: fish, bats, animal behavior, animal communication, animal cognition, animal emotions, animal sentience, animal rights, animal protection, veganism.  Languages: English Read Jonathan’s bio here.
Sarah M Bexell, PhD

Sarah M Bexell, PhD

Director of Humane Education, Institute for Human-Animal Connection, University of Denver Visiting Clinical Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver Director of Conservation Education, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Faculty, Institute for Humane Education-Valparaiso University
Areas of Expertise:  biodiversity decline, giant pandas, red pandas, humane education, animal rights, veganism, animals in child development Languages:  English Associated Organization: University of Denver Read Sarah’s bio here.

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Animals & Media Statistics

  • Biodiversity

    Homo sapiens share our planet with 2 million known species.

  • Undiscovered Biodiversity

    Up to 80% of our planet’s species could be undiscovered by science. This means Earth’s species could number more than 10 million (Wilson).

  • Pre-Human Extinction

    One to 10 species went extinct annually before humans for every million species.

  • Current Extinction

    The current extinction rate is 1,000 times greater than pre-human levels. This Sixth Mass Extinction event is thought to be driven by human activity (Wilson).

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