Joana Roque de Pinho|Clara Grilo|Randall B. Boone|Kathleen A. Galvin|Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
Influence of Aesthetic Appreciation of Wildlife Species on Attitudes towards Their Conservation in Kenyan Agropastoralist Communities
Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências|University of Lisbon|Colorado State University|Estación Biológica de Doñana|Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas|University of Aveiro|Colorado State University|Colorado State University|Colorado State University
influence human aesthetic appreciation animal species public attitudes towards conservation related decisionmaking studied industrialized countries remains underexplored developing countries working three agropastoralist communities around amboseli national park southern kenya investigated relative strength human aesthetic appreciation local attitudes towards conservation wildlife species using semistructured interviewing free listing n 191 part mixed methods approach first characterized local aesthetic judgments wildlife species generalized linear mixed models glmm approach determined influence perceiving four species beautiful local support protection rescuing perceiving four species ugly support removal area controlling informant personal household socioeconomic attributes perceiving giraffe gazelles eland beautiful strongest variable explaining support rescuing ugliness strongest variable influencing support removal buffalo hyena elephant lion qualitative quantitative results suggest perceptions ugly species could become positive direct exposure species propose protected areas developing countries facilitate visitation local residents increase familiarity species rarely see frequently see conflict human interests since valuing species beauty requires seeing protected areas developing countries connect people live around animals protect results also show aesthetic appreciation biodiversity restricted industrialized world