Assessing the impacts of conservation volunteering on participant wellbeing: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT: Background: Volunteers and citizen scientists have become an essential element of most nature conservation and restoration activities due to lack of resources but also due to the wish to engage and interact with local communities where conservation activities take place. Environmental or conservation volunteering is also considered to be a key resource in achieving much needed, ambitious nature restoration programs. Practical conservation work and various forms of environmental enhancement along with recreational and therapeutic use of natural or green and blue spaces have been studied for some time. The value of volunteers and the work is widely acknowledged but few studies have been carried out on the impacts of participating on the volunteers themselves. Using this protocol, a st

SUBMITTER: Nuuttila H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10020737 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature