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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.016
	What happened to climate change? CITES and the reconfiguration of polar bear conservation discourse
	Tyrrell M.; Clark D.A.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	24 期号:1
英文摘要	In the past decade, polar bears have become the poster species of climate change. But in March 2013, a joint proposal by the governments of the United States and the Russian Federation to up-list polar bears to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) diverted public attention from climate change towards the hunting of polar bears. Prior to a vote on the proposal, non-governmental organisations spear-headed a media campaign to support the up-listing. In the United Kingdom the campaign received support from celebrities and was widely reported in English language news media. Narratives of commercial legal and illegal polar bear hunting and the imminent extinction of polar bears were aggressively promoted, rhetorically supported by the manipulation of trade and scientific data. By rendering discourses of commercial hunting and a lucrative global trade in polar bear parts highly visible, sustainable hunting and climate change-induced habitat loss were rendered invisible. Media reports of commercial hunting de-coupled polar bear conservation from climate change mitigation, and disassociated polar bear hunting from regulated indigenous subsistence practices. A review of current polar bear conservation measures and an analysis of media coverage leading up to the CITES decision reveal these conflicting discourses, and suggest that more nuanced media coverage of polar bear conservation is necessary if appropriate multilateral conservation policies are to be enacted and publicly supported. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Conservation; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); Hunting; Inuit; Media; Polar bears
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117812
作者单位	Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, 117 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C8, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tyrrell M.,Clark D.A.. What happened to climate change? CITES and the reconfiguration of polar bear conservation discourse[J],2014,24(1).
APA	Tyrrell M.,&Clark D.A..(2014).What happened to climate change? CITES and the reconfiguration of polar bear conservation discourse.Global Environmental Change,24(1).
MLA	Tyrrell M.,et al."What happened to climate change? CITES and the reconfiguration of polar bear conservation discourse".Global Environmental Change 24.1(2014).