*Proceeding Paper* **The Role of Environmental Journalism and Documentaries as a Means of Informal Education for Environmental Citizenship †**

**María Purificación Subires-Mancera 1,\* and José Jesús Delgado-Peña 2,\***


**Abstract:** The documentary is one of the genres most commonly used in Environmental Journalism to inform, educate and raise awareness among citizens about the conservation and defense of the environment. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of documentaries as tools for Informal Environmental Education, by means of case studies, in order to examine how they can contribute to Environmental Citizenship. The main conclusions that can be highlighted are that the in-depth treatment of the issues, showing the images that reflect the attacks against nature and using expert scientific sources make the public know the problems, reflect on them and develop a critical awareness.

**Keywords:** documentary; informal education; environmental citizenship; mass media; environmental journalism
