When Is the Ark Getting Here? The Impact of the Media on Threatened and Endangered Species’ Time to Listing and Long-Term Sustainability

Allen Bellas and Lea-Rachel Kosnik
Additional contact information
Allen Bellas: College of Business and Management, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN 55106, USA

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: The goal of this study is to determine whether media coverage affects a species’ waiting time from candidacy or proposal to inclusion on the threatened/endangered species list and, as a result, the species’ prospects for long-term survival and ultimate sustainability. The timely listing of a species reduces the probability that it will go extinct while under review, speeds the development and implementation of preservation plans, and ultimately improves overall biodiversity and ecosystem robustness. While the timing dimension of the EPA’s endangered/threatened species listing process has been investigated previously, this research appears to be the first to include media attention as a possible explanatory variable. Results from a Cox proportional hazards model suggest that media attention can significantly impact the time from candidacy to listing, and that both national and local articles tend to hasten the process. Coverage earlier in the process is especially impactful. Various factors, including political forces, are ultimately at play, but our results suggest that media input plays a part as well.

Keywords: endangered species; threatened species; biodiversity; ecosystem maintenance; sustainable regulation; media coverage; newspaper; content analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/6/2405/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/6/2405/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:16:y:2024:i:6:p:2405-:d:1356786

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().