Analyzing Google search data to debunk myths about the public's interest in conservation

Buřivalová, Zuzana; Butler, Rhett; Wilcove, David S.

doi:10.1002/fee.1962

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“…As we draw closer to key environmental tipping points generated by business-as-usual economic development and over-exploitation, two core, interrelated trends offer a glimmer of hope. First, there are embryonic signs of a worldwide, bottom-up (i.e., grassroots) environmental movement (e.g., recent global Extinction Rebellion protests) and indications of a growing public interest in conservation and climate change, not just in the world's wealthy nations [87]. Second, the attitudes of many governments and large corporations toward the environment appear to be changing, driven by concerns about the national security risks posed by environmental degradation and climate change (e.g., mass immigration/emigration, food and fuel insecurity, flooding, disease, and drought) [88] and by fears about the long-term sustainability of supply chains and profits.…”

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Conservation of Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

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If current trends continue, the tropical forests of the Anthropocene will be much smaller, simpler, steeper and emptier than they are today. They will be more diminished in size and heavily fragmented (especially in lowland wet forests), have reduced structural and species complexity, be increasingly restricted to steeper, less accessible areas, and be missing many heavily hunted species. These changes, in turn, will greatly reduce the quality and quantity of ecosystem services that tropical forests can provide. Driving these changes will be continued clearance for farming and monoculture forest plantations, unsustainable selective logging, overhunting, and, increasingly, climate change. Concerted action by local and indigenous communities, environmental groups, governments, and corporations can reverse these trends and, if successful, provide future generations with a tropical forest estate that includes a network of primary forest reserves robustly defended from threats, recovering logged and secondary forests, and resilient community forests managed for the needs of local people. Realizing this better future for tropical forests and people will require formalisation of land tenure for local and indigenous communities, better-enforced environmental laws, the widescale roll-out of payments for ecosystem service schemes, and sustainable intensification of under-yielding farmland, as well as global-scale societal changes, including reduced consumerism, meat consumption, fossil fuel reliance, and population growth. But the time to act is now, while the opportunity remains to protect a semblance of intact, hyperdiverse tropical forests.

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Conservation of Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

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“…The panel on the left shows data from 1 January to 30 June 2019 (no COVID‐19), while the panel on the right shows data from 1 January to 30 June 2020 (during the COVID‐19 pandemic). Google Trends does not provide the total number of searchers for a term (Burivalova et al., 2018). They provide an adjusted proportion of searches.…”

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How the ecology and evolution of the COVID‐19 pandemic changed learning

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“…The panel on the left shows data from January 1 -June 30, 2019 (no COVID-19), while the panel on the right shows data from January 1 -June 30, 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic). Google Trends does not provide the total number of searchers for a term (Burivalova et al 2018). They provide an adjusted proportion of searches.…”

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How the ecology and evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic changed learning

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic introduced an abrupt change in human behavior globally. Here, we discuss unique insights into the eco-evolutionary role of pathogens in ecosystems and present data that indicates the pandemic can fundamentally change our learning choices. This pathogen has indirectly affected many organisms and processes by globally changing the behavior of humans to avoid being infected. The pandemic also changed our learning behavior by affecting the relative importance of information and forcing teaching and learning into a framework that accommodates human behavioral measures to avoid disease transmission. Not only are these indirect effects on the environment occurring through a unique mechanistic pathway in ecology, the pandemic along with its effects on us provides a profound example of the role risk can play in the transmission of information between the at-risk. Ultimately, these changes in our learning behavior led to this special issue "Taking learning online in Ecology and Evolution." The special issue was a call to the community to take learning in new directions, including online and distributed experiences. The topics examined include a significant component of DIY ecology and evolution that is experiential and but done individually, opportunities to use online tools and apps to be more inclusive, student-focused strategies for teaching online, how to reinvent conferences, strategies to retain experiential learning safely, emerging forms of teaching such as citizen science, apps and podcasting, and ideas on how to accommodate ever changing constraints in the college classroom, to name a few. The collective consensus in our fields is that these times are challenging but we can continue to improve and innovate on existing developments, and more broadly and importantly, this situation may provide an opportunity to reset some of the existing practices that fail to promote an effective and inclusive learning environment.

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Analyzing Google search data to debunk myths about the public's interest in conservation

Cited by 55 publications

References 21 publications

Conservation of Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

Conservation of Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

How the ecology and evolution of the COVID‐19 pandemic changed learning

How the ecology and evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic changed learning

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