Monitoring public awareness about the endangered northern bald ibis: a case study involving primary school children as citizen scientists.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Citizen science has evolved over the past decades by motivating members of the public to interact with scientists and actively participate in scientific research and monitoring. For this purpose, a proficient communication is mandatory in order to efficiently convey messages and reduce the gap of knowledge between scientists and lay people. In the present study, we aimed at evaluating the multiplying effect of children, who were trained to communicate their knowledge on an endangered bird species in order to engage the local community in the long-term ornithological monitoring of the free flying and individually marked colony of northern bald ibis (NBI, Geronticus eremita), which was established at the research station in 1997.

Methods

Pupils of the local p

SUBMITTER: Frigerio D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6744932 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature