Wildlife Conservation Miche’le Bullington Valentina Calmo Erica Haynes Danya Schulman

About Wildlife Conservation Wildlife Conversation is a process of protecting wild life. Everyone in our group thinks that conserving our wildlife is important but we were unaware how to help. We also believe that most people in society feel the same way and don’t know enough about either the subject or getting involved.

More Through our research and our articles we learned there are a lot of different environmental issues that occur today. We also learned that the government is having trouble deciding whether to intervene or not because of the economy. There are a lot of threats towards our wildlife including deforestation, over hunting, wasting resources, lack of involvement and many more. We hope to see from this survey how informed or not informed society is about wildlife conservation as well as bring awareness of these issues to our survey takers. Deforestation is the process of cutting down large amounts of trees, which perhaps were the homes of animals and other ecosystems.

Even more Another major problem that is affecting wildlife is over hunting. National Parks protect animals from hunters because eventually some animals may become extinct. Along with these other problems includes the fact we are wasting our resources. To help preserve wildlife and the nature around us we need take action to help keep our wildlife. Another big problem that occurs with wildlife conservation is the lack of knowledge and involvement. People in our society are not informed on certain issues that may help conserve our wildlife and improve national parks. With this survey we hope that it will either show the survey taker that they want to get more informed on this issue or that they don’t have an opinion on it.

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Sub group #1 Race: White Education level: Highschool Economic status: Middle-Class Age: Teens

Questions and expected answers for Subgroup #1 1) Does the well being of our wildlife have an affect on your personal life? Sometimes, Results: Yes 2) If there were more opportunities to recycle would you take advantage of that? Yes, Results: Yes 3) Do you think we will ever exhaust our resources? Not in our lifetime, Results: Yes, eventually

Continued 4) Do you find it important for our government to protect and conserve our natural habitats? Yes, completely Results: Yes, completely 5) Do you feel that hunting is a threat to extinction of different species? I somewhat agree, Results: Somewhat Agree 6) Do you think people should learn more about protecting our wildlife? I disagree, Results: Of course 7) Are you, yourself, willing to learn more about protecting wildlife? No, Results: Yes, and take action 8) What do you believe to be the biggest threat to wildlife? Humans, Results: Humans

Subgroup #2 Educational Level: College Graduate Economic Status: Middle- Class Age: 40’s & 50’s Registration Status: Registered

Questions and expected responses for Subgroup #2 1) Does the well being of our wildlife have an affect on your personal life? Sometimes, Results: Sometimes 2) If there were more opportunities to recycle would you take advantage of that? Yes, Results: Yes 3) Do you think we will ever exhaust our resources? Not in my lifetime, Results: Yes, eventually 4) Do you find it important for our government to protect and conserve our natural habitats? I don’t care, Results: Yes, Completely

Continued 5) Do you feel that hunting is a threat to extinction of different species? I don’t have an opinion, Results: Of course 6) Do you think people should learn more about protecting our wildlife? Yes, Results: Yes 7) Are you, yourself, willing to learn more about protecting wildlife? Yes, but I want to learn more Results: Yes, but I want to learn more 8) What do you believe to be the biggest threat to wildlife? Humans, Results: Humans

Subgroup #3 Gender: Female Economic Status: Middle-Class Age: 20’s Registration Status: Registered

Questions and expected answers 1) Does the well being of our wildlife have an affect on your personal life? Yes, Results: Yes 2) If there were more opportunities to recycle would you take advantage of that? Yes, Results: Yes 3) Do you think we will ever exhaust our resources? Yes, eventually, Results: Yes, eventually 4) Do you find it important for our government to protect and conserve our natural habitats? Yes, completely, Results: Yes, completely

Continued 5) Do you feel that hunting is a threat to extinction of different species? Yes, I strongly agree, Results: I somewhat agree 6) Do you think people should learn more about protecting our wildlife? Of course, Results: Of course 7) Are you, yourself, willing to learn more about protecting wildlife? Yes, I want to learn more and take action Results: Yes, I want to learn more and take action 8) What do you believe to be the biggest threat to wildlife? Humans, Results: Humans

Predictions and Conclusion Overall with the results we obtained, our predictions were split 50/50 among all subgroups. We were surprised that we weren’t spot on for our own age group. We discovered that although people are aware of the environmental issues, people don’t want to go out of their way to help. If helping was more easily accessible then they would help. In working on our survey project we learned more about public opinion and the polling process. We applied Opinion saliency by realizing that some people care more about certain topics than others. Political Socialization was taken into consideration because the background and beliefs of the people we surveyed impacted how they answered the survey.