Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions in Tasmania: Tourists' Attitudes and Behaviour.

ABSTRACT: The surge in wildlife-vehicle collision research has not yet translated into a substantial decrease in animal fatalities. In line with the prevailing view, we suspect that drivers' behaviour may be the most crucial element. We address a research gap in drivers' attitudes towards and behaviour in response to wildlife-vehicle collisions from a tourist perspective. We designed a questionnaire to examine tourists' attitudes and behaviour in relation to wildlife-vehicle collisions while driving in Tasmania. We found that the respondents' sociodemographic attributes had minimal effect on their practical responses to roadkill. Tourists consider wildlife-vehicle collisions a serious problem for both biodiversity loss and animal welfare reasons, and their willingness to change their behaviour was h

SUBMITTER: Leurs E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11350784 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature