Photography and biodiversity awareness: The use of images in conservation

Authors

  • Santiago Carreira National Museum of Natural History (Montevideo, Uruguay).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.24705

Keywords:

photography, conservation, history, research, science

Abstract

Since its inception, photography has played an important role as a documentary tool. It has been used to communicate and disseminate biodiversity research and conservation projects in different parts of the world. Today, the extraordinary technological development and popularity of photography has allowed it to be used to collect data for different types of scientific projects and to facilitate a much more fluid exchange of information between the scientific community and the public, for example in citizen science programmes. However, a paradigm shift is now being proposed for photography to move beyond its purely artistic sense to reveal its informative and knowledge-generating potential in the field of conservation.

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Author Biography

Santiago Carreira, National Museum of Natural History (Montevideo, Uruguay).

Researcher at the Laboratory of Systematics and Natural History of Vertebrates at the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of the Republic of Uruguay. He is also a member of the herpetology section of the National Museum of Natural History (Montevideo, Uruguay). He is the co-author of several scientific publications and books such as Reptiles de Uruguay (Universidad de la República, 2005), Guía de anfibios del Uruguay (Ediciones de la Fuga, 2012), and Libro rojo de los anfibios y reptiles de Uruguay (Dinama, 2019), among others.

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2024-01-11

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Carreira, S. (2024). Photography and biodiversity awareness: The use of images in conservation. Metode Science Studies Journal, (14), 23–29. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.24705
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Pieces of science (vol. 14, 2024)

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Moments of science. Photography and the understanding of nature

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