Environmental Savior

George and Joy Adamson
Jacques Cousteau
Iain & Saba Douglas-Hamilton
Dian Fossey
Birutė Mary Galdikas
- Silvey Anita National Geographic Kids (Firm) and National Geographic Society (U.S.)
  Undaunted: The Wild Life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans.
  Washington DC 2019: National Geographic.
Jane Goodall
- Volker Schütz, Gerda Melchior: Jane’s Journey. Die Lebensreise der Jane Goodall. hansanord, Feldafing 2010
- Jane’s Journey. Die Lebensreise der Jane Goodall. Dokumentarfilm, Tansania, Deutschland 2010, 103 Min., Buch und Regie: Lorenz Knauer
Richard Leaky
Cynthia Moss
Craig Packer
Laurence van der Post
Ian Player
Daphne Sheldrick

Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (USA 2009)
Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves (UK, USA 1990)
- Weidemann, Henry
  Into the Wild. Rhetorik der Landschaftsdarstellung im Hollywoodkino am Beispiel der Langfassung von Kevin Costners Dances with Wolves.
  Diss. Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel, 2018. Aachen 2018: Shaker. DNB
Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai (USA, Neuseeland, Japan 2003)
Dakota Fanning in Secret Life of Bees (Lassiter & Prince-Bythewood, USA 2008)
Emma Stone in The Help (Columbus & Taylor, USA 2011),

Abidin, C. D., Brockington, M. K., Goodman M. Mostafanezhad, M., L. A. Richey
The Tropes of Celebrity Environmentalism.
Annual Review of Environment and Resources 45 (2020) 387-410. DOI .
Beinart W., McKeown K.
Wildlife media and representations of Africa, 1950s to the 1970s.
Environ. Hist. 14 (2008) 429–52
Biddle, Pippa
Ours to Explore Privilege Power and the Paradox of Voluntourism.
Lincoln 2021: Potomac Books an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press.
»pathological altruism«, volunteer tourism
Brockington D.
Celebrity and the Environment. Fame, Wealth and Power in Conservation.
London 2009: Zed
Burgess, Jacquelin
The Production and Consumption of Environmental Meanings in the Mass Media: A Research Agenda for the 1990s.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 15.2 (1990) 139-161.
Garland E.
The elephant in the room: confronting the colonial character of wildlife conservation in Africa.
African Studies Review 51 (2008) 51–74
Hughey Matthew W.
The White Savior Film : Content Critics and Consumption.
Philadelphia Penn. 2014: Temple Univ. Press.
Mbaria J., Ogada M.
The Big Conservation Lie.
Seattle, Wash. 2016: Lens and Pens Publ.
Schultz, J.
Glory Road (2006) and the White savior historical sport film.
Journal of Popular Film and Television, 42.4 (2014) 205–213. DOI
Winston, Thomas Pillsbury
A Critique of the Environmental Savior Trope in Wildlife Film.
Montana State University, Bozeman 2010.