SummaryGazetting and maintaining protected areas (PAs) are political processes and, as such, depend on wider society’s support in order to achieve their aims. In this paper, we evaluated the influence of gender, education, age, income, place of origin and place of residence on public support for PAs in the Brazilian state of Amapá, a new tropical forest frontier. We gathered 615 complete interviews with adults living in both rural and urban settings. We found that most (90.5%) of the participants support PAs and that this attitude is more likely to exist among urban than rural participants. We found that gender, education, age, income and place of origin did not influence support for PAs. Biodiversity conservation is the most common reason why PAs receive public support. In contrast, participants who do not favour PAs see them as providing no benefit to people. We suggest that support by local political leaders from dominant and rival political parties for conservation helps to promote acceptance of PAs by stakeholders. However, relatively low support for PAs among rural participants could indicate that the expectations of these populations regarding the social benefits associated with this conservation policy have yet to be fulfilled.

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对巴西亚马逊新森林边界保护区的公众支持

摘要登记和维护保护区 (PA) 是政治过程，因此，需要更广泛的社会支持才能实现其目标。在本文中，我们评估了性别、教育、年龄、收入、原籍地和居住地对巴西阿马帕州（一个新的热带森林前沿）公共支持的影响。我们收集了 615 份对生活在农村和城市环境中的成年人的完整访谈。我们发现大多数 (90.5%) 的参与者支持 PA，并且这种态度在城市参与者中比在农村参与者中更可能存在。我们发现性别、教育、年龄、收入和原籍地不影响对 PA 的支持。生物多样性保护是保护区获得公众支持的最常见原因。相比之下，不赞成 PA 的参与者认为 PA 对人们没有任何好处。我们建议，来自主要和竞争政党的地方政治领导人对保护的支持有助于促进利益相关者对保护区的接受。然而，农村参与者对保护区的支持相对较低可能表明这些人口对与该保护政策相关的社会效益的期望尚未实现。