Making a greener planet: nature documentaries promote plant awareness.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Plants underpin life on Earth and are essential to human existence. Alarmingly, almost 40% of plant species are under threat of extinction, with plants that are not directly useful to humans being particularly vulnerable. Plant diversity and its untapped resources require urgent protection to safeguard our future, but conservation initiatives are biased towards mammals and birds. Plant awareness disparity, formerly known as plant blindness, describes our tendency to ignore plant life and has been suggested to play a crucial role in the bias against funding and support for plant conservation programmes. Previous studies indicate that nature documentaries can generate shifts in audience awareness of animal species by providing vicarious connections to nature. Here

SUBMITTER: Kacprzyk J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9992931 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature