2004
DOI: 10.1017/s0814062600002329
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Enjoying Our Backyard Buddies – Social Research Informing the Practice of Mainstream Community Education for the Conservation of Urban Wildlife

Abstract: Supporting urban communities to make changes that contribute to sustainable living is a challenge that many environment and conservation organisations embrace. However, many community education and involvement initiatives to date have tended to appeal mostly to those with knowledge and enthusiasm for protection and conservation of the environment, leaving the majority of the community relatively unengaged. In a NSW Environmental Trust supported initiative seeking to enhance the protection and conservation of w… Show more

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“…Wildlife gardening programmes fall under the broad banner of community environmental education. The success of such programmes has been seen as limited as they tend to only attract the informed and enthusiastic members of the community rather than reaching those most in need of the environmental education (Davies and Webber, 2004). This is illustrated by a study examining attitudes toward possums in a Melbourne municipality (Miller, Brown and Temby, 1999) which found that respondents with positive attitudes toward possums had a significantly greater interest in learning about possums, than respondents with negative attitudes (Miller et al, 1999).…”
Section: Wildlife Gardeningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Wildlife gardening programmes fall under the broad banner of community environmental education. The success of such programmes has been seen as limited as they tend to only attract the informed and enthusiastic members of the community rather than reaching those most in need of the environmental education (Davies and Webber, 2004). This is illustrated by a study examining attitudes toward possums in a Melbourne municipality (Miller, Brown and Temby, 1999) which found that respondents with positive attitudes toward possums had a significantly greater interest in learning about possums, than respondents with negative attitudes (Miller et al, 1999).…”
Section: Wildlife Gardeningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such programs are often seen as limited in their success because they attract informed and enthusiastic individuals rather than those most in need of education and engagement (Davies & Webber, 2004). This is illustrated by a study examining attitudes toward possums in a Melbourne municipality (Miller, Brown, & Temby, 1999), which found that respondents with positive attitudes toward possums had a significantly greater interest in learning about possums, than respondents with negative attitudes.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In my review of the last ten years of the AJEE (1995-2004) I could find no direct references to pedagogy or discussions of practice addressing the natural history of Australia 4 . Several papers (see for example Davies & Webber, 2004;Malone, 2004) made reference to aspects of natural history, such as observing or paying attention to the particulars of the surrounding environment, but none directly addressed a pedagogy of Australian natural history. I will discuss these papers, and a number of others, in order to draw attention to the significance of this gap in Australian environmental education discourse.…”
Section: Natural History In Australian Environmental Educationmentioning
confidence: 99%