China’s Environment Newspaper: China’s national level environment newspaper, China Environmental News, played a major role in improving public awareness on the environment. Broadcasting companies also play a major role. China’s radio stations, for example, regularly broadcast programmes and conduct competitions on environment themes. One local radio station in Beijing in 1988 attracted more than 60,000 responses from more than one million listeners to a knowledge competition on environmental protection, a success that has since been repeated by other radio stations.
Argentina: National List of Violators of Environmental Regulations. In Argentina, legal initiatives empowering the National Secretary of Natural Resources and Human Environment to publish a list of violators of environmental regulations are causing negative publicity for the offending industries.
Africa: Several African newspapers have designated environmental desks or journalists responsible for weekly or bi-weekly detailed environmental features. This remarkable development helps to enhance public awareness on the environment as well as providing a rich source of environmental education for the public on global and national environmental issues.