IntroductionOne of the objectives of the Society for Conservation Biology is "the education, at all levels, preparatory and continuing, of the public, of biologists, and of managers, in the principles of conservation biology." Education certainly promotes understanding of conservation issues (see Jacobson 1990), but it can also alter people's attitudes. In order to explore this hidden dimension of conservation education, we tested students' attitudes to nature at the start and end of a lecture course in conservation biology. MethodsSubjects consisted of third-and fourth-year undergraduate students who took a lO-weelg 27-lecture undergraduate course in conservation biology at the University of California, Davis. Between 1990 and 1992 there were 34 female students and 17 males. Forty were undergraduates, 29 of whom were biology majors, 7 were science-related majors, 4 were nonscience majors, and 11 were graduate students.
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