Airone

Airone was founded in 1981 as an ecologist magazine primarily containing articles about animal world, nature, ethnology and geography.^[1][2] The founder and first director was Egidio Gavazzi.^[2] It was for years the most widely circulated scientific magazine in Italy,^[3][4] with a peak of average circulation of about 250,000 copies per month.^[3][5] Between 1985 and 1986 it co-produced with RAI the nature documentary series Pan.^[6][7] In 1989 it was launched a spin-off for the younger readers, Airone Junior, renamed Dodo in April 1995.^[8][9]

Airone was described as a "magazine similar to National Geographic, but perhaps more conservation-minded",^[10] and it was referred to as "a stunning natural history magazine, the best of several European magazines".^[11] In an article about the first ten years of the magazine, the L'Unità journalist Antonio Del Giudice pointed how the magazine was "not just an editorial phenomenon, but also a cultural, political e social phenomenon".^[2]

The circulation of Airone was 94,000 copies in 2007.^[12] In December 2013 the magazine had a circulation of 83,000 copies per month.^[13]

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