Editorial: Future Perspectives in Conservation Education

Thomas, Sarah

doi:10.1111/izy.12134

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“…Zoos are encouraged to explore a range of methods for public engagement [4] and this should also apply to the content they produce on social media. Our results demonstrate that a wide variety of videos can be both educational and entertaining to the broader YouTube audience.…”

Section: Video Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the modern zoo, effective public education and conservation of species are two of an institutions' most important objectives [1,2]. Zoos currently utilize a range of tools for the communication of scientific topics [3]; however, institutions should explore different approaches within their public engagement and communication strategy to expand their reach to a more diverse audience [4]. With more individuals increasingly turning towards online environments to find science content [5], the internet can enable zoos to reach a much broader audience [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Education Is Entertainment? Zoo Science Communication on YouTube

Llewellyn

Rose

2021

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YouTube is the dominant online video-sharing platform and offers zoos an opportunity to engage a vast audience with conservation content. As there is limited research evaluating how zoos currently utilize YouTube, we cataloged and evaluated the content of 20 zoological organizations (focusing on the top 1000 most viewed videos from each channel) from 2006 to 2019. Separately, educational content in a subsample of the most viewed and recently produced videos from three zoo-YouTube channels was catalogued and evaluated for the period 2016 to 2019. We found that channels are becoming more focused on producing entertainment, rather than education-based content and not reflecting the taxonomic diversity of their animals. Videos containing conservation content may not be the most popular with the YouTube audience (making up only 3% of the most viewed videos), but there is evidence that outputs are becoming more conservation orientated, with more conservation-focused videos being produced over time. Zoos may be engaging with large audiences via YouTube, but should carefully consider how they represent different taxonomic classes and how they can create educational material in interesting and accessible forms.

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Section: Video Structurementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Education Is Entertainment? Zoo Science Communication on YouTube

Llewellyn

Rose

2021

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“…Educating zoo visitors is one of the main goals of zoos, where 94% of the visitors expect this [3]. Additionally, recent guidelines recommend employing new technologies to facilitate learning and increase engagement [38]. However, many existing solutions in zoos provide information for the visitors without directly including the animals [5,40], except when the technology allows observing the animal via video [40].…”

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Developing Zoo Technology Requirements for White-Faced Saki Monkeys

Hirskyj-Douglas

Piitulainen

2020

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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How early technology requirements are formed for animals involves asking humans caring for the animal to give requirements for them. For zoo animals, this is the keeper and other experts who work with the animal. This requirement gathering process is used as a method of forming user-centric designs for systems for animals. Yet little attention has been paid towards how to form these early requirements in zoos or whom to gather these from. Addressing this, we investigate how to construct technology requirements for the zoo housed animals, using white-faced saki monkeys as an instance. Utilizing the method of questionnaires, we gather requirements from zoo keepers and zoo visitors. Comparing and analyzing our results, we reveal how requirements for animal-technology in zoo contexts diverge and intersect. Our data indicates that these vantages mostly align; with the zoo visitors focusing upon the aesthetics and keepers concentrating on practicalities. Overarching these, we note how requirements in proxy for animals often involves a synthesis of complex motivations, user narratives, vantage points, and prior technology and animal experience that is irreparably intertwined within the requirement process. This paper builds upon requirement gathering methods for unconventional users.

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“…In conservation biology, it is recognized as an important part of the field [7]. Schools and informal learning environments such as zoos or natural history museums are crucial to informing the general public about the conservation of species and ecosystems [8].…”

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Factors Affecting Zoo Visitors’ Conservation Beliefs and Knowledge of Large Carnivores in 2009 and a Dozen Years Later

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Teaching in a formal learning environment mainly focuses on gaining knowledge, and scarcely on the development of pro-environmental attitudes. Knowledge can also be gained in informal learning institutions, such as zoos, and their potential use in general public education should not be neglected. This paper explores factors influencing the conservation beliefs of zoo visitors about brown bears, grey wolves, and Eurasian lynx. The study undertaken in Zoo Ljubljana (Slovenia) consisted of surveys performed in 2009 (n = 613) and in 2021 (n = 257). The levels of knowledge and education influenced both supporting and opposing beliefs about the three large carnivore species. The gender factor was less uniform: both supporting and opposing beliefs about lynx were demonstrated, but only opposing beliefs about brown bear and wolf. The study indicates that knowledge has the most significant influence on conservation beliefs, thus highlighting the importance of educational and communication activities in management and conservation actions regarding large carnivore species. The varied gender influence suggests that species-specific educational activities should be encouraged.

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Editorial: Future Perspectives in Conservation Education

Cited by 43 publications

References 40 publications

Education Is Entertainment? Zoo Science Communication on YouTube

Education Is Entertainment? Zoo Science Communication on YouTube

Developing Zoo Technology Requirements for White-Faced Saki Monkeys

Factors Affecting Zoo Visitors’ Conservation Beliefs and Knowledge of Large Carnivores in 2009 and a Dozen Years Later

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