Are protected areas effective in conserving human connection with nature and enhancing pro-environmental behaviours?

Cazalis, Victor; Prévot, Anne-Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.012

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“…All records of Seriemas using human-made structures did not show evidence of negative reaction by campus users. People often tend to become more aware of the surrounding environment when they are close to nature [62] and in recent years in Brazil activities such as birdwatching have become increasingly mainstream (e.g., [42,43]), which suggests that people are becoming more positive toward wildlife in general [63,64]. Indeed, the willingness of many citizens to participate in our study supports this assumption.…”

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confidence: 62%

Large Terrestrial Bird Adapting Behavior in an Urbanized Zone

Alexandrino

Bogoni

Navarro

et al. 2019

Animals

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Wildlife living within urban ecosystems have to adapt or perish. Red-legged Seriema, a large terrestrial bird, are rare in urban ecosystems, however, they have been reported in a medium-sized Brazilian city. We investigated the reasons for this occurrence as well as their behavior. We assessed the distribution of Seriemas (including fledglings), free-ranging cats, and cat-feeding points provided by humans, and past records of Seriemas in the study area. We discovered that Seriemas are sharing spatial resources with cats without apparent conflicts, and intraspecific competition was important to define the spatial distribution of Seriemas. This species is able to use human-made structures to improve territory defense and opportunistic foraging. Direct and indirect human food provisioning is helping them to survive in the studied area, but is also facilitating the domestication process, which may cause future conflicts with humans and cats. Although Seriemas have inhabited the studied urban area for years, they are still adapting their behaviors for urban life, as they have not yet perceived the dangers of automotive traffic. Our study corroborates that wild species may adapt to urban areas driven by human contact, but it also acts as a trap for the adaptive process.

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confidence: 62%

Large Terrestrial Bird Adapting Behavior in an Urbanized Zone

Alexandrino

Bogoni

Navarro

et al. 2019

Animals

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“…Non-humans species did not only recover spatially but as well in the everyday life of humans and this can also lead to a positive impact on biodiversity. Indeed, it is recognized that an increased experience of nature is likely to improve people commitment to protect wildlife ( Chan et al, 2016 ; Prévot et al, 2018 ; Cazalis and Prévot, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on the human experience of nature

Vimal

2022

Science of The Total Environment

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The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in extensive lockdowns implemented all around the world and billion of people have been asked to stay at home for several weeks. Although this global confinement has had potentially huge unintended consequences on the environment and on its associated wildlife, this study shows that it has also impacted the human experience of nature. Based on an online questionnaire, this study aims to assess how the significant changes in people's everyday lives induced by the French lockdown impacted their relationship with other species. Participants did not only observe and interact more with non human species, but also discovered new traits characterizing them, and felt less lonely thanks to them. The impact of the lockdown was stronger on people's relationship with their pets, farm animals, home plants and with birds than with other plants and animals. This study further demonstrates that participants with different profiles have been affected differently. In particular, women and people with better access to nature were clearly more sensitive to changes and have been more positively impacted in their relationships with other species. Acting as a real world experiment, the lockdown reveals to which extent our experience of nature is embedded in social, cultural and political contexts.

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“…The value of the coefficient of determination (ry1 2 ) = 0.201, this concludes that the variable of responsibility affects 20.1% of the pro-environmental behavior of company employees, while the rest comes from other variables not examined. Research [11] determines that pro-environmental behavior is influenced by knowledge of the environment and the distance between the place of residence or work and the surrounding natural conservation areas. So, if the Citarum watershed is designated as a nature conservation area, it will increase the pro-environmental behavior of company employees, or at least the government will intensify the Citarum Harum program, which must be campaigned to encourage corporate environmental responsibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The environmental attitude in question is the desire to improve the pro-environmental behavior of company employees which is related to the employee variables autonomous motivation (AM) and controlled motivation (CM). In the study [11], it was explained that employees 'pro-environmental behavior is influenced by knowledge of the environment and the distance between employees' living areas and nature conservation areas. The closer to the residence, the awareness of employees about the perception of ecological threats.…”

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Development of Smartphone-based Environmental Education Program for Pro-environment Behavior of Company Employees Around Citarum Watershed

Istiana¹,

Retnowati²,

Sutanto³

et al. 2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This research aims to develop smartphone-based environmental education programs for employees in citarum watershed. This research is a preliminary study that is included in stages 1 to 3 in the development procedure Research and Development (R&D) of Borg and Gall, namely Research and information collecting, Planning, Developing a preliminary form of the product. The study was conducted from January to April 2020. Participants in this study were company employees in the Citarum River Basin, Purwakarta Regency, West Java. The sampling technique used in this study was random sampling. The instrument used to collect research data was a questionnaire. The instrument used in product development is the validation instrument of media experts and environmental material experts. Data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Preliminary research results show that the pro-environment behavior of employees was influenced by 29.2% perception of environmental policies, 16.8% understanding of environmental pollution, 20.1% of corporate environmental responsibility, and 33.7% is influenced by the perception of ecological threats.The results of the material expert validation show that the product developed has a score of 4 for relevance; 4.5 for accuracy; 4 for completeness of presentation and material, 3.5 for curiosity; 4.5 for the encouragement of interaction; and 4 to encourage employees to build their knowledge (scale 1-5). The results of the validation media experts showed that the product developed had a score of 4 in the presentation of the application, 3.5 for language and typography, and 4 for functions and benefits (scale 1-5). The Android-based environmental education program for employees in the Citarum River Basin was developed as a model of employee environmental education recommendations to improve employee pro-environment behavior.

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Are protected areas effective in conserving human connection with nature and enhancing pro-environmental behaviours?

Cited by 29 publications

References 44 publications

Large Terrestrial Bird Adapting Behavior in an Urbanized Zone

Large Terrestrial Bird Adapting Behavior in an Urbanized Zone

The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on the human experience of nature

Development of Smartphone-based Environmental Education Program for Pro-environment Behavior of Company Employees Around Citarum Watershed

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