Conservation culturomics: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Ladle, Richard J.; Souza, Carolina Neves; Correia, Ricardo A.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109255

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“…Thus, all social media data requires extensive cleaning and critical analysis(Toivonen et al 2019). Despite such limitations, the enormous volumes of data generated by social media platforms such as Twitter mean that their analysis can certainly generate insights into the perceptions of non-social media users(Ceron et al 2014) and, critically, allows the evaluation of macroscopic patterns of human-nature interactions(Ladle et al 2021). In this sense, recognizing the limitations and potentialities of Twitter as an investigative pathway, we suggest that other data sources can be combined in order to strengthen discussions on the ndings.…”

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Brazilian Protected Areas on Twitter: A 10-year Overview

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Social media platforms are a valuable source of data for investigating cultural and political trends related to the public interest in nature and conservation. Here, we use the micro-blogging social network Twitter to explore trends in public interest in Brazilian protected areas (PAs). We identified ~400,000 Portuguese language tweets pertaining to all categories of Brazilian PAs over a ten-year period (1 January 2011 - 31 December 2020). We analyzed the content of these tweets and metrics of their engagement to uncover patterns and drivers of public engagement with Brazilian PAs. Our results indicate a steep growth in tweets mentioning protected areas, especially from 2016 onwards. Nevertheless, public interest was not evenly distributed across PAs: while national parks generated the most tweets, mainly related to tourism activities, tweets related to conflicts among park users and managers were more likely to engage Twitter users. Our study clearly highlights that automatic or semi-automatic monitoring of social media content and engagement has great potential as an early warning system to identify emerging conflicts and to generate data and metrics to support environmental policy and management at the level of individual PAs or PA networks.

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Brazilian Protected Areas on Twitter: A 10-year Overview

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Almeida

Correia

et al. 2022

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Did the COVID-19 Crisis Reframe Public Awareness of Environmental Topics as Humanity’s Existential Risks? A Case from the UK

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The COVID-19 pandemic has not just gently nudged but forcefully thrust environmental issues into the forefront of public consciousness. This shift in awareness has been a long-time aspiration of conservation scientists, who have played a crucial role in advocating for recognizing nature’s contributions to human life and a healthy environment. I explain the advantages of using newly available tools and sources of digital data, i.e., the absolute search volume in Google using the flag keywords biodiversity, climate change, and sustainability, Τhe GDELT Project, which monitors the world’s broadcast, print, and web news, and the difference-in-differences method comparing paired samples of public interest before and after the pandemic outbreak. We focus on the case of UK citizens’ public interest. Public interest in the flag keywords in the UK showed a highly significant increase during the pandemic. The results contradict hypotheses or findings presented elsewhere that the public interest is attenuated during and because of the public health crisis. I support growing public awareness of the existential risks springing from human materialism misappropriating nature, environment, and resources. In conclusion, I advocate for a “new conservation narrative” that could be fostered by the increased public interest in environmental topics during the pandemic.

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Conservation culturomics: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Cited by 2 publications

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Brazilian Protected Areas on Twitter: A 10-year Overview

Brazilian Protected Areas on Twitter: A 10-year Overview

Did the COVID-19 Crisis Reframe Public Awareness of Environmental Topics as Humanity’s Existential Risks? A Case from the UK

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