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Why Do (Or Don’t) People Protect Nature? Insights From Conservation Practice and Environmental Psychology to Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis

Global Environmental Psychology
Understanding and shaping human action towards nature conservation is critical to reversing the biodiversity crisis. Psychological science provides tools for understanding individual and collective behaviours, but also for understanding how the behaviour
Lily M. van Eeden, Hugh P. Possingham, Taciano L. Milfont, Christoph Klebl, Kelly Fielding   +4 more
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Conservation psychology and climate change [PDF]

, 2020
S. Clayton
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Who knows, who cares? Untangling ecological knowledge and nature connection among Amazonian colonist farmers

People and Nature, 2021
Conservationists often assume that connection with and caring about nature's well‐being is strongly linked to ecological knowledge. Existing evidence on the link between ecological knowledge and psychological nature connection is mixed, geographically ...
Katarzyna Mikołajczak, Alexander C. Lees, Jos Barlow, Frazer Sinclair, Oriana Trindade de Almeida, Agnis C. Souza, Luke Parry   +6 more
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Understanding motivations and attitudes among songbird‐keepers to identify best approaches to demand reduction

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
Demand for cage birds is highly prevalent and increasing across Indonesia, as wild bird populations across Asia decline. To find ways to reduce demand, it is important to understand the motivations and psychographic drivers to keep (or not keep) birds ...
Harry Marshall, Gracia A. Glorizky, Nigel J. Collar, Alexander C. Lees, Andrew Moss, Pramana Yuda, Stuart J. Marsden   +6 more
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The importance of message framing in rule compliance by visitors during wildlife tourism

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
A conundrum of wildlife tourism is balancing wildlife conservation and tourist satisfaction. Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei) are a flagship species for biodiversity and there is worldwide interest in gorilla trekking safaris.
Simplicious J. Gessa, Jessica M. Rothman
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Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature

Ecology and Society, 2022
Human relationships with nature are increasingly being recognized as an important factor in environmental conservation. Understanding how people perceive and know nature, and the language they use to describe nature, their concepts of nature, could have ...
Melissa Hatty, Denise Goodwin, Liam Smith, Felix Mavondo   +3 more
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Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests

Conservation Letters, 2021
The current biodiversity crisis involves major shifts in biological communities at local and regional scales. The consequences for Earth's life‐support systems are increasingly well‐studied, but knowledge of how community shifts affect cultural services ...
Alejandra Echeverri, Daniel S. Karp, Luke O. Frishkoff, Jaya Krishnan, Robin Naidoo, Jiaying Zhao, Jim Zook, Kai M. A. Chan   +7 more
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Challenges to understanding nonmaterial dimensions of human-nature connections, and how to address them

Ecology and Society, 2021
Research on the nonmaterial aspects of human-nature connections has grown steadily in recent years, yet efforts to understand nonmaterial connections between individuals and nature confront myriad challenges.
Rachelle K. Gould, P. Wesley Schultz
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Introduction: New directions in conservation psychology at a critical time

Conservation Biology, 2020
Introduction: New directions in conservation psychology at a critical time A. M. Dietsch, ∗ K. E. Wallen, S. Clayton, H. E. Kretser, G. T. Kyle, Z. Ma, and A.
Alia M. Dietsch, K. Wallen, Susan Clayton, H. E. Kretser, H. E. Kretser, Gerard T. Kyle, Zhao Ma, Ans Vercammen   +7 more
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We have a steak in it: Eliciting interventions to reduce beef consumption and its impact on biodiversity

Conservation Letters, 2020
Beef production is a major driver of biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas emissions globally, and multiple studies recommend reducing beef production and consumption.
Matthew J. Selinske, Fiona Fidler, Ascelin Gordon, Georgia E. Garrard, Alexander M. Kusmanoff, Sarah A. Bekessy   +5 more
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