Public perception of river fish biodiversity in four European countries
Abstract Public support for biodiversity conservation is shaped by people's values and their knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward the environment. We conducted the first multinational representative survey of the general public's perceptions of river fish biodiversity in France, German...
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crwiley:10.1111/cobi.13180 2024-06-23T07:51:25+00:00 Public perception of river fish biodiversity in four European countries Kochalski, Sophia Riepe, Carsten Fujitani, Marie Aas, Øystein Arlinghaus, Robert H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13180 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fcobi.13180 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.13180 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/cobi.13180 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Conservation Biology volume 33, issue 1, page 164-175 ISSN 0888-8892 1523-1739 journal-article 2018 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13180 2024-06-11T04:42:35Z Abstract Public support for biodiversity conservation is shaped by people's values and their knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward the environment. We conducted the first multinational representative survey of the general public's perceptions of river fish biodiversity in France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden. For the online survey, 1000 respondents per country were randomly selected from large panels following country‐specific quotas set on age, gender, and educational level. Questions covered people's level of knowledge, beliefs, values, and attitudes toward river fish, environmental threats, and conservation measures. We found that the public had limited knowledge of freshwater fishes. Two non‐native species, rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) and brook trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis ), were widely perceived as native, whereas native Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) was mostly classified as native in Scandinavia and largely as non‐native in central Europe. These results suggest an extinction of experience paralleling the extirpation or decline of salmon stocks in countries such as Germany and France. Respondents thought pollution was the dominant threat to riverine fish biodiversity. In reality, habitat loss, dams, and the spread of non‐native fishes are equally important. Despite limited biological knowledge, respondents from all countries held an overwhelmingly proecological worldview, supported conservation stocking, and appreciated native fishes, although only a minority interacted with them directly. Differences among the 4 countries related to several conservation issues. For example, threats to biodiversity stemming from aquaculture were perceived as more prevalent in Norway compared with the other 3 countries. Promoting fish conservation based on charismatic species and use values of fishes may work well in countries with a strong economic and cultural link to the freshwater environment, such as Norway. In countries where people rather abstractly care for nature, focusing conservation messaging on ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon Salmo salar Wiley Online Library Norway Conservation Biology 33 1 164 175 |
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Abstract Public support for biodiversity conservation is shaped by people's values and their knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward the environment. We conducted the first multinational representative survey of the general public's perceptions of river fish biodiversity in France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden. For the online survey, 1000 respondents per country were randomly selected from large panels following country‐specific quotas set on age, gender, and educational level. Questions covered people's level of knowledge, beliefs, values, and attitudes toward river fish, environmental threats, and conservation measures. We found that the public had limited knowledge of freshwater fishes. Two non‐native species, rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) and brook trout ( Salvelinus fontinalis ), were widely perceived as native, whereas native Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) was mostly classified as native in Scandinavia and largely as non‐native in central Europe. These results suggest an extinction of experience paralleling the extirpation or decline of salmon stocks in countries such as Germany and France. Respondents thought pollution was the dominant threat to riverine fish biodiversity. In reality, habitat loss, dams, and the spread of non‐native fishes are equally important. Despite limited biological knowledge, respondents from all countries held an overwhelmingly proecological worldview, supported conservation stocking, and appreciated native fishes, although only a minority interacted with them directly. Differences among the 4 countries related to several conservation issues. For example, threats to biodiversity stemming from aquaculture were perceived as more prevalent in Norway compared with the other 3 countries. Promoting fish conservation based on charismatic species and use values of fishes may work well in countries with a strong economic and cultural link to the freshwater environment, such as Norway. In countries where people rather abstractly care for nature, focusing conservation messaging on ... |
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H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung |
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Public perception of river fish biodiversity in four European countries |
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