{"id":397374,"date":"2019-02-27T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-showbiz-of-conservation-peta-google-and-steve-irwin\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:02:14","slug":"the-showbiz-of-conservation-peta-google-and-steve-irwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-showbiz-of-conservation-peta-google-and-steve-irwin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Showbiz of Conservation: PETA, Google and Steve Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The world of conservation has thrown up various voices of tenacity.\u00a0 There was Aldo Leopold, a vital figure behind establishing the first wilderness area of the United States when he convinced the Forest Service to protect some five hundred thousand acres of New Mexico\u2019s Gila National Forest.\u00a0 There was Robert Marshall, the founder of The Wilderness Society.\u00a0 There was Rachel Carson\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelcarson.org\/SilentSpring.aspx\">Silent Spring<\/a><\/em> (1962), a solidly aimed blow at the use of DDT and its environmental effects.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the savvy showmen, the exploiters few short of a scruple, and manipulators keen on lining pockets.\u00a0 The animal kingdom, for such types, is entertainment, much in the way that the automobile world is there for a figure such as Jeremy Clarkson.\u00a0 Awareness of the existence of animals \u2013 their importance, their relevance \u2013 is drummed up by means of display and provocation.\u00a0 The more dangerous, in a sense, the better, for here, human kind can be shown to be jousting with crocodile, sting ray and lion.\u00a0 Humankind can return to savage roots, confronting other species in gladiatorial encounters with film crew and an extensive promotion strategy.\u00a0 This is bullfighting, with a conservationist twist.<\/p>\n<p>Such a figure was Steve Irwin, who made his way from Australia to the US, assisted by the solid contacts of his American wife Terri Raines, to build a name in the animal show business.\u00a0 He became \u2013 and here the language is instructive \u2013 the self-styled Crocodile Hunter,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/the-showbiz-of-conservation-peta-google-and-steve-irwin\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of conservation has thrown up various voices of tenacity.\u00a0 There was Aldo Leopold, a vital figure behind establishing the first wilderness area of the United States when he convinced the Forest Service to protect some five hundred thousand acres of New Mexico\u2019s Gila National Forest.\u00a0 There was Robert Marshall, the founder of The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}