Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Faculty of Science, Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 6;10(1):11085. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-67931-5.
Public attention and interest in the fate of endangered species is a crucial prerequisite for effective conservation programs. Societal awareness and values will largely determine whether conservation initiatives receive necessary support and lead to adequate policy change. Using text data mining, we assessed general public attention in France, Germany and the United Kingdom toward climate change and biological invasions in relation to endangered amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal species. Our analysis revealed that public attention patterns differed among species groups and countries but was globally higher for climate change than for biological invasions. Both threats received better recognition in threatened than in non-threatened species, as well as in native species than in species from other countries and regions. We conclude that more efficient communication regarding the threat from biological invasions should be developed, and that conservation practitioners should take advantage of the existing attention toward climate change.
公众对濒危物种命运的关注和兴趣是有效保护计划的关键前提。社会意识和价值观在很大程度上决定了保护倡议是否会得到必要的支持，并导致适当的政策变化。我们使用文本数据挖掘技术，评估了法国、德国和英国公众对气候变化和生物入侵与濒危两栖动物、爬行动物、鸟类和哺乳动物物种之间关系的关注。我们的分析表明，公众关注模式在物种群体和国家之间存在差异，但与生物入侵相比，气候变化在全球范围内受到的关注更高。这两种威胁在受威胁物种中比在非受威胁物种中以及在本地物种中比在来自其他国家和地区的物种中得到了更好的认识。我们的结论是，应该针对生物入侵的威胁开发更有效的沟通方式，保护从业者应该利用现有的气候变化关注度。
