The authors of this paper take a behavioral economics approach, administering simplified decision problems (“choice experiments”), questions about choice-relevant preferences and views (“elicitation questions”), and a psychometric scale (the New Ecological Paradigm scale) to a difficult-to-recruit sample (n = 100) of Canadian professionals involved in managing Rangifer tarandus caribou (Woodland Caribou). Read more
As protecting forests are key to tackling climate change, a family of policies known as ‘reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation’ (REDD) were designed to provide financial incentives to maintain and increase, rather than reduce, forest cover globally. Read more
The authors of this paper explore the factors shaping 9 conservation attitudes toward forest and wildlife protection among colonist farmers around an Amazonian deforestation frontier. Read more
These findings underline a need for prioritization exercises to better attend to the risks of concentrating potentially negative livelihood impacts in vulnerable regions. Read more
This paper focuses on how members of the farming community in England perceive common rewilding scenarios. Read more
In this first study of the potential of biomimicry as an innovation strategy in developing countries, the author investigates how nations can leverage their biodiversity as a knowledge bank of solutions to both current and future challenges. Read more
In four video stories, this paper explores the impact of varying the type of protagonist species (Elephant and WildDog) and content about the role of humans in causing wildlife loss (Elephant + HumanAction and WildDog + HumanAction) using Facebook A/B split tests. Read more
This research investigates how different audio-visual information on conservation influences charitable donation behaviour and emotions. Read more
The unintentional effects that conservation videos requesting financial donations might have on how people act in relation to environmental causes are investigated in this study. Read more
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that so-called ‘non-charismatic’ animals, such as bats, could be used just as effectively... Read more
