| Re: How to Promote Conservation?
it's a fine line though. We want to encourage enthusiasm amongst the next generation and need charismatic and enthusiastic presenters to do that. But at the same time we don't want to give the message to children that animals are there solely for their amusement and can be pulled from nests, burrows, mauled about and generally 'hassled'. The welfare of the animals should be our foremost concern. For all Steve Irwin's strengths I feel he did go a bit too far at times presumably for his, and our, amusement.
Matt |