Wildlife

This article discusses the fox population within urban settings in Great Britain. Population estimates are included along with certain relevant statistics; for example, the spring garden watch survey by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) found that about 40% of people living in urban areas reported seeing a fox in their garden, compared with about 23% in the countryside.

The results of this Flash Eurobarometer survey indicate that 93% of adults globally and 85% of adults in Europe consider the loss of biodiversity (animal species, flora and fauna, natural habitats, and ecosystems) to be a "very serious" or "fairly serious" problem.

This meta-analysis of 38 studies conducted between 1972 and 2000 shows that 51% of public opinions survey respondents exhibit positive attitudes toward wolves and 60% support wolf restoration. Attitudes appear to be negatively correlated with age, rural residence, and farming/ranching occupations, and positively correlated with education and income.

The results of the Airbus Bio-Index, a survey of more than 10,000 youths worldwide, show that more efforts are needed to educate children about the environment and related issues. Only 4% of youths in the United States ranked the environment as "most important" to them, compared with 39% who ranked watching TV or playing computer games as most important. Furthermore, 41% of U.S. youth said the environment was "least important" to them, higher than the global response of 32%. Animals were considered the "most important" by 9% of youths globally and by 11% of youths in the U.S.

According to a survey by Just-Eat, one in five Britons believe that haggis, a traditional Scottish dish made from the lung, liver and heart of a sheep, is a roaming Highlands animal.

This study assessed the perceptions about the state of the sealing industry and the impact among licensed sealers and owners of licensed fishing vessels of the U.S. consumer boycott of Canadian seafood products.

One conservation strategy to address bushmeat hunting in the Udzungwa Mountains is Community Based Wildlife Management (CBWM). However, this study concludes that CBWM is limited in its ability to reduce the causes of bushmeat hunting in the area, proposing that increasing the numbers of domestic animals within the more poverty stricken areas would be more effective in protecting wildlife against exploitation.