Ambio ( IF 5.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 , DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01546-6 Ainara Cortés-Avizanda 1, 2, 3 , Henrique M Pereira 3, 4, 5 , Ellen McKee 2 , Olga Ceballos 6 , Berta Martín-López 7
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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 characteristics of respondents. Interestingly, we found that although elusive steppe species are globally considered as endangered, these species were the least known by all social actor groups and rarely perceived as emblematic. This research is a novel approach and provides a better understanding of how perceptions can facilitate conservation decisions, particularly regarding endangered species
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中文翻译：
社会参与者对野生动物的看法：地中海保护区物种保护的见解
摘要
在当前的人类世时代，生物多样性保护面临的众多挑战不断升级，将社会因素纳入有关野生动物和保护区的管理决策对于其成功至关重要。通过在地中海保护区（西班牙北部巴德纳斯雷亚尔生物圈保护区）进行 354 份问卷调查，我们旨在确定影响物种和功能群体的知识水平和认知水平、象征性和受威胁的社会人口因素。我们发现猎人和畜牧业工人比其他社会参与者了解更多的物种。此外，不同社会行动者群体对功能群体作为威胁或象征性的看法有所不同，看法与受访者特征之间存在统计上显着的关联。有趣的是，我们发现，尽管难以捉摸的草原物种在全球范围内被视为濒临灭绝，但这些物种却是所有社会行动者群体中最不为人所知的物种，并且很少被视为具有象征意义。这项研究是一种新颖的方法，可以更好地理解观念如何促进保护决策，特别是关于濒危物种的决策
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