Behaviour change interventions to facilitate forest trail users’ biosecurity compliance

Aley, Joanne P.; Espiner, Stephen; MacDonald, Edith A.

doi:10.1080/09669582.2023.2217365

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“…As a final point, the success of campaigns to raise awareness of invasive pests and encourage surveillance depends, fundamentally, on the level of people's involvement with preventing the spread of pests. If involvement is mild at best, awareness-raising campaigns and interventions [3,[52][53][54] are likely to fail, unless they touch on some immediate specific need, because they will be ignored.…”

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Predicting Community Participation in Passive Pest Surveillance

Kaine,

Wright,

Mason

2024

Conservation

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Predicting the willingness of people to engage in passive surveillance is crucial to the success of community-based efforts to manage invasive species and conserve native biodiversity. We draw on the marketing concept of involvement, which reflects the personal importance of an issue or behaviour, to understand and measure the motivation of members of the public to engage in passive surveillance. The usefulness of this concept was tested by analysing the responses of householders to surveys about their willingness to engage in passive surveillance for a purely environmental pest, Red-eared Slider Turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans), and their willingness to engage in passive surveillance for an economic and environmental pest, Argentine Ants (Linepithema humile), in New Zealand. We found that involvement influenced intentions, attitudes and surveillance behaviour for both invasive pests. We discussed the implications of these findings for (i) choosing between a surveillance strategy based on recruiting and training highly motivated members of the public and a strategy based on passive surveillance by any member of the public; (ii) growing the potential for passive surveillance by either increasing involvement with preventing the spread of a pest or increasing involvement with surveillance activities themselves; and (iii) determining the importance of convenient reporting mechanisms in promoting consistent reporting.

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Predicting Community Participation in Passive Pest Surveillance

Kaine,

Wright,

Mason

2024

Conservation

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Compliance with kauri forest protection in New Zealand’s regional parks: the mediating role of trust on local versus visitor populations

Grant,

Lindsay,

Benson

2024

Reg Environ Change

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Realising behavioural change in long invested environmental practices is often difficult to achieve, especially when scientific understanding of the issues is still unfolding. Having confidence in one’s action requires knowledge that actions will be effective in improving environmental outcomes. Currently, we know little about the role of social trust in mediating complex and uncertain knowledge of environmental problems and the required actions needed to address them. In this quantitative study, we surveyed 472 users of endangered kauri forests in New Zealand to better explore the role of trust in relation to pro-environmental behaviours (PEB) designed to mitigate effects of the devastating plant disease, kauri dieback. Findings show uncertainty about the scientific knowledge of the issue, recommended actions and efficacy of proposed solutions significantly influenced PEB for both residents and visitors of forests; however, this relationship was partially mediated by trust, particularly among locals residing within 5 km of infected forest areas. These findings indicate the need for closer engagement with local residents to develop institutional and scientific trust in kauri dieback interventions. We outline activities that may help build trust and recommend new areas of research to support higher compliance with environmental protection initiatives.

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