Conservation culturomics

Ladle, Richard J.; Correia, Ricardo A.; Do, Yuno; Joo, Gea‐Jae; Malhado, Ana C. M.; Proulx, Raphaël; Roberge, Jean‐Michel; Jepson, Paul

doi:10.1002/fee.1260

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“…To determine how internet search activity about ivory burns in general changed around the time of the 2016 ivory burn, we used Google Trends (Ladle et al. ), which has been widely applied in studies of the popularity of environmental topics (Ficetola ; Nghiem et al. ).…”

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Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Braczkowski

Holden

O’Bryan

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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Recent increases in ivory poaching have depressed African elephant populations. Successful enforcement has led to ivory stockpiling. Stockpile destruction is becoming increasingly popular, and most destruction has occurred in the last 5 years. Ivory destruction is intended to send a strong message against ivory consumption, both in promoting a taboo on ivory use and catalyzing policy change. However, there has been no effort to establish the distribution and extent of media reporting on ivory destruction events globally. We analyzed media coverage of the largest ivory destruction event in history (Kenya, 30 April 2016) across 11 nation states connected to ivory trade. We used an online-media crawling tool to search online media outlets and subjected 5 of the largest print newspapers (by circulation) in 5 nations of interest to content analysis. Most online news on the ivory burn came from the United States (81% of 1944 articles), whereas most of the print news articles came from Kenya (61% of 157 articles). Eighty-six to 97% of all online articles reported the burn as a positive conservation action, whereas 4-50% discussed ivory burning as having a negative impact on elephant conservation. Most articles discussed law enforcement and trade bans as effective for elephant conservation. There was more relative search interest globally in the 2016 Kenyan ivory burn than any other burn in 5 years. Ours is the first attempt to track the reach of media coverage relative to an ivory burn and provides a case study in tracking the effects of a conservation-marketing event.

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“…The reported numbers were scaled on a range of 0–100 as a percentage of total searches in a given location and period (Ladle et al. ).…”

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Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Braczkowski

Holden

O’Bryan

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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“…For example, at the individual scale one might study perceptions, values, attitudes or behaviors of natural resource users (Bennett, 2016;Veríssimo et al, 2014). At the global scale, social scientists might study how narratives or ideas are changing and influencing international agreementsthrough the study of policy documents, global meetings or even mentions and representations of ideas on social media (Ladle et al, 2016). Social phenomena can also be studied at multiple scales simultaneously -e.g., social scientists might examine how changes in markets, policies or demographics at macro or national scales influence local decisionmaking or socio-economic outcomes (Adger et al, 2008).…”

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Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Bennett¹,

Roth²,

Klain³

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It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimensions. This paper examines the scope and purpose of eighteen subfields of classic, interdisciplinary and applied conservation social sciences and articulates ten distinct contributions that the social sciences can make to understanding and improving conservation. In brief, the conservation social sciences can be valuable to conservation for descriptive, diagnostic, disruptive, reflexive, generative, innovative, or instrumental reasons. This review and supporting materials provides a succinct yet comprehensive reference for conservation scientists and practitioners. We contend that the social sciences can help facilitate conservation policies, actions and outcomes that are more legitimate, salient, robust and effective.

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“…; Van der Wal & Arts ; Ladle et al . ). Digital conservation is the emerging field of conservation science where digital technologies and novel data sources are being used to help stem biodiversity loss (Van der Wal & Arts ).Thus far, digital conservation has, among other topics, focused on citizen science (Pimm et al .…”

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Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists’ Preferences for Nature‐Based Experiences in Protected Areas

Hausmann

Toivonen

Slotow

et al. 2017

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Can social media data be used as an alternative to traditional surveys to understand tourists’ preferences for nature‐based experiences in protected areas? We explored this by comparing preferences for biodiversity obtained from a traditional survey conducted in Kruger National Park, South Africa, with observed preferences assessed from over 13,600 pictures shared on Instagram and Flickr by tourists visiting the park in the same period. We found no significant difference between the preferences of tourists as stated in the surveys and the preferences revealed by social media content. Overall, large‐bodied mammals were found to be the favorite group, both in the survey and on social media platforms. However, Flickr was found to better match tourists’ preference for less‐charismatic biodiversity. Our findings suggest that social media content can be used as a cost‐efficient way to explore, and for more continuous monitoring of, preferences for biodiversity and human activities in protected areas.

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Conservation culturomics

Cited by 245 publications

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Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists’ Preferences for Nature‐Based Experiences in Protected Areas

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