European Journal of Wildlife Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 71(1)

Опубликована: Дек. 18, 2024

Abstract Across Europe, wolves are recolonizing former habitats, but frictions between and people remain a challenge. Better understanding of attitudes towards existing management practices is essential to devise wolf that better considers societal aspects. In this study, we focus on case study in the Italian Alps, where conducted quantitative survey investigate management. We used multiple regression analysis determine which factors such as emotions knowledge or belonging particular stakeholder group explained variations found almost half our respondents felt scared about presence wolves, who had less factually correct were more afraid than factual knowledge. Farmers reported significantly higher ratings anger, fear, frustration general population. anger fascination significant predictors for management, knowledge, education level connectedness nature not. Our findings support further engagement take seriously address range stakeholders impact public co-existence cultural landscapes Alps.

Язык: Английский