Rural and Urban Students' Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Brown Bears in Turkey

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dc.contributor.authorAmbarlı, Hüseyin
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-30T23:31:45Z
dc.date.available2020-04-30T23:31:45Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentDÜ, Orman Fakültesi, Yaban Hayatı Ekolojisi ve Yönetimi Bölümüen_US
dc.descriptionAmbarli, Huseyin/0000-0003-4336-9417en_US
dc.descriptionWOS: 000384940900010en_US
dc.description.abstractMany studies have examined adults' perceptions of and attitudes toward large carnivores to assess human-wildlife conflict and inform conservation strategies, but there have been few studies concerning children. I studied secondary school students' perceptions of and attitudes toward brown bears (Ursus arctos) and other large mammals in Turkey via a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire, consisting of 18 questions, was completed by 215 rural and 98 urban secondary school students. Both sets of students liked bears; they were also afraid of them and unsure about living with them in the future. While there were no gender differences in attitudes and perceptions, there were marked differences between urban and rural students. Urban students had less contact with nature, gained more of their knowledge about bears from documentaries, and had less positive attitudes toward bears. They were also more likely to be afraid of species not present in Turkey, for example, anaconda, while rural students were most afraid of wild boars. Factor analysis identified three important themes: familiarity with bears, conservation of bears, and experiencing conflict with bears, which explained 49.8% of the variance in attitudes toward bears. The most important factor for the development of negative attitudes toward bears was personal experience of human-bear conflict, suggesting that measures to reduce human-bear conflict in rural areas may help to sustain students' positive attitudes toward the conservation of bears.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEU Youth Program of National Agency of Turkey [3.1-2005-072]; TUBITAKTurkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [2219]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipI thank the students and science teachers of Sarigol Secondary Schools and METU Secondary School and EKOCEV Youth Project team. This study was supported by EU Youth Program of National Agency of Turkey under Grant [3.1-2005-072], and TUBITAK 2219 Postdoctoral Grant while finalizing the manuscript. I am grateful to Dr. Didem Ambarli for her valuable help with preparing and applying the questionnaire. I express my special gratitude to Karen Noyce and two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript. I also thank Dr. Renee Worringer and Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen for proofreading the paper.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08927936.2016.1181384en_US
dc.identifier.endpage502en_US
dc.identifier.issn0892-7936
dc.identifier.issn1753-0377
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage489en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2016.1181384
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/4449
dc.identifier.volume29en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000384940900010en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofAnthrozoosen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectAsiaen_US
dc.subjectbrown bearen_US
dc.subjectfearen_US
dc.subjecthuman-wildlife conflicten_US
dc.subjectwild boaren_US
dc.subjectwolfen_US
dc.titleRural and Urban Students' Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Brown Bears in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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