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Interview with Finn Middleton, young Shropshire filmmaker, on his new film at the 2025 Good Natured Film Festival
As we at Conservation Optimism are gearing up for the 2025 Good Natured Conservation Optimism Film Festival, we're excited to spotlight one of our youngest featured filmmakers, Finn Middleton, and his entry for this year's festival: "The Onny's Story: A Fight for the Future." Read on for a short interview about Finn's journey, his sources of inspiration, and reasons for hope as a young person using his creative voice for nature.
Conservation Optimism 2025: Communication for Conservation (PART 3 – Communication for Conservation)
In the final installment of this three-part blog series, hear from our Director, Jon Taylor, on the role of communication in driving conservation action, as well as Conservation Optimism's place in this mission. "...In democracies, the main tools we have for changing attitudes and refocussing values are communication and persuasion. Conservationists will not achieve this goal through reports and graphs, but by mastering the ancient art of understanding and moving an audience, hopefully aided by a modern understanding of how humans react to messaging and communication."
Conservation Optimism 2025: Communication for Conservation (PART 2 – Communication Power Tools)
In the second of this three-part blog series, hear from our Director, Jon Taylor, on the role of communication in driving conservation action, as well as Conservation Optimism's place in this mission. "Many people and organisations use the framing of ‘biodiversity crisis’ or ‘climate emergency’, sometimes because drama appeals to readers, but often also to inspire action of an appropriate scale and speed. What we often don’t consider is that we are using this language to provoke a ‘fight or flight’ response."