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Around the world people express very different concerns about wildlife, and the general public may have quite different perceptions from those of professional conservationists. In a survey among the American and Japanese public, for instance, only 30% and 18%, respectively, regarded habitat destruction by humans as a major threat to wild species. Nor are attitudes and opinions entirely predictable from measures of education and national development. The Japanese, by and large, were found to harbour a ‘mastery of nature’ outlook which westerners would probably now consider to be naive and outdated. In Japan this attitude was not strongly influenced by level of education, whereas in the USA college-educated people expressed greater ecological and ethical concern for animals than did those of lower educational attainment (Kellert 1991).
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Bolton, M. (1997). Conservation, controversies and concerns. In: Bolton, M. (eds) Conservation and the Use of Wildlife Resources. Conservation Biology Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1445-2_4
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