Cross-Cultural Awareness and Attitudes Toward Threatened Animal Species.

ABSTRACT: The preservation of our planet's decreasing biodiversity is a global challenge. Human attitudes and preferences toward animals have profound impacts on conservation policies and decisions. To date, the vast majority of studies about human attitudes and concern toward animals have focused largely on western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (i.e., WEIRD) populations. In order to mitigate biodiversity loss globally, an understanding of how humans make decisions about animals from multicultural perspectives is needed. The present study examines familiarity, liking and endorsement of government protection amongst six broad cultural groups living in Qatar for five threatened animal species indigenous to the Arabian Gulf. Our findings highlight similarities and differe

SUBMITTER: Bruder J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9194822 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature