Social actors' perceptions of wildlife: Insights for the conservation of species in Mediterranean protected areas.

ABSTRACT: In the current Anthropocene Era, with numerous escalating challenges for biodiversity conservation, the inclusion of the social dimension into management decisions regarding wildlife and protected areas is critical to their success. By conducting 354 questionnaires in a Mediterranean protected area (the Biosphere Reserve of Bardenas Reales, Northern Spain), we aim to determine sociodemographic factors influencing knowledge levels and perceptions of species and functional groups as, emblematic and threatened. We found that hunters and animal husbandry workers knew more species than other social actors. Additionally, the perception of functional groups as threatened or emblematic differed between social actor groups, with statistically significant associations between perceptions and the cha

SUBMITTER: Cortes-Avizanda A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847512 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature