Attitudes and preferences of wildlife and their relationship with childhood nature experience amongst residents in a tropical urban city.

ABSTRACT: How people relate to biodiversity and whether they are supportive of conservation programs and policies has implications on global and local biodiversity conservation efforts. Nature experiences in childhood has been shown to be strongly correlated to positive attitudes towards nature and wildlife in adulthood. In this study, we examined wildlife experience, attitudes and willingness to coexist with 26 vertebrates and invertebrates amongst residents in a highly urbanized tropical city, Singapore. A total of 1004 respondents were surveyed and their childhood nature experience and various socioeconomic variables were obtained. The animals were grouped by their likeability and preferred habitat from the respondents' answers. Three main groups of animals were discerned - unfavorable animals, m

SUBMITTER: Ngo KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483242 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature