Richardson Miles, Cormack Adam, McRobert Lucy, Underhill Ralph
Department of Life Sciences, College of Life and Natural Sciences, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom.
The Wildlife Trusts, Newark, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2016 Feb 18;11(2):e0149777. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149777. eCollection 2016.
There is a need to increase people's engagement with and connection to nature, both for human well-being and the conservation of nature itself. In order to suggest ways for people to engage with nature and create a wider social context to normalise nature engagement, The Wildlife Trusts developed a mass engagement campaign, 30 Days Wild. The campaign asked people to engage with nature every day for a month. 12,400 people signed up for 30 Days Wild via an online sign-up with an estimated 18,500 taking part overall, resulting in an estimated 300,000 engagements with nature by participants. Samples of those taking part were found to have sustained increases in happiness, health, connection to nature and pro-nature behaviours. With the improvement in health being predicted by the improvement in happiness, this relationship was mediated by the change in connection to nature.
为了人类福祉以及自然本身的保护，有必要增强人们与自然的互动和联系。为了提出人们与自然互动的方式，并营造更广泛的社会环境以使与自然互动常态化，野生动物信托基金会开展了一项大规模的参与活动——“30天荒野生活”。该活动要求人们在一个月的时间里每天与自然互动。12400人通过在线报名参加了“30天荒野生活”，总体估计有18500人参与，参与者与自然的互动估计达30万次。研究发现，参与活动者在幸福感、健康状况、与自然的联系以及亲自然行为方面持续提升。由于幸福感的提升预示着健康状况的改善，这种关系是由与自然联系的变化介导的。
