Week 5 - Applied Behaviour: Conservation Flashcards
What is conservation psychology?
Understanding human idea and attitudes, promote sustainable practices, and to understand why we help and harm nature
What are conservation interventions?
The product of human decision-making processes and require changes in human behaviour to success
Ensures that the genetic traits for adaptations are conserved for the future
Compare in situ vs ex situ conservation?
In: performed in the NATIVE RANGE STATES OF A SPECIES (in their habitat)
- marine conservation zones, wildlife reserves
Ex: using a managed population as a conservation ‘back-up’ - a zoo
What is the one plan approach? (New - IUCN)
New management strategy for conservation - includes all individuals of a population (metapopulation management)
What is the sliding management scale (with examples)?
The scale between how humans manage the a population
WILD: a self-sustaining population (eg. Peregrine falcon)
SEMI-WILD: a population reliant on conservation interventions (eg. African Elephant)
INTENSIVELY MANAGED: A population dependent on human care at the individual and population level (eg. Spray Toad)
What is animal welfare? **
The state of an individual as it attempts to cope with its environment
How is animal welfare measured (3 categories)
SUBJECTIVE
- State of the Individual
- Physiological measurements via behaviour - Attempts at coping
- stereotyped behaviours (pacing/swaying etc.)
- self-directed behaviours
- dysfunctional behaviours/abnormal behaviours - The effect of the environment
- stressors
- inadequate environment
- fight or flight response
How can the 4 Questions be applied to conservation using the example of Pigs biting their cage bars **
Pigs when caged bite the bars of their cage - poor welfare when behaviour is restricted
Causation: no stimulation for foraging
Function: provides a sense of relief
Development: coping/learnt
Evolution: increased breeding by animals that cope (increasing the stereotyped behaviour)
It is VITAL to be ethically minded in conservation efforts