siehe auch: White 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.