Event Description
Are you a journalist? Do you manage or create content for social media?
If you report on, or share content about whales and other marine mammals in Canada, this event is for you!
The media plays a powerful role in shaping public attitudes and actions that can either help or harm marine mammal conservation. We understand the challenges faced by media in ensuring accurate and ethical reporting, and want to help.
The goal of this event is to help improve coverage, reduce misinformation, and prevent the amplification of content that contributes to harmful – or even illegal – human activities around marine mammals.
The webinar will be an efficient way to immerse into the laws and best practices for operations around marine mammals in Canada and how these relate to media coverage. There will be specifics about how past reporting has, or has not, helped with reducing threats to marine mammals.
If you wish to have access to the recording of the webinar, please ensure you register.
Presenter: Jackie Hildering (MERS Humpback Whale researcher and Director of Education and Communications).
This event builds on the messaging and content from collaborations with 4VI / Tourism Vancouver Island and the North Island Marine Mammal Stewardship Association.
Register here.