Assessing public perception of various human-wildlife relationships in Indonesia using a webinar series pre-registration form

Abstract

Throughout history, humans shared habitats and resources with animals, making human-wildlife interactions (HWI), including conflict, inevitable. Understanding issues before mitigating them is one important aspect of conservation. This study assessed 1,613 registrants’ data on public perception of HWI through a computer-mediated communication (CMC) platform by conducting registration surveys for webinar series that discussed relevant HWI cases in Indonesia. Among all the results from five studies, a finding shows there is a consistency of perceptions toward certain animal groups in the context of HWI. Moving forward, this cost-effective method can be replicated to gather public perceptions on conservation issues, allowing conservationists to plan a better urban outreach activity.

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to Ayut Enggeliah Entoh, Herlina Agustin, Afrizal Maulana Abdi (Gibbonesia), Ngobrol Sedulur, Center for Environmental Communication Study of Padjadjaran University, and all guest speakers in the webinar series for their support of the project.

Author contributions

PIK contributes to conceptualization, methodology, data collection, formal analysis, funding acquisition, project management, and manuscript writing. IAR contributes to project management, data collection, data curation and management, analysis, and visualization. RAS contributes to project management and manuscript writing. NR contributes to full manuscript writing and preparation.

Disclosure statement

All authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Data availability statement

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SATVDG

Additional information

Funding

The webinar episode 2-6 is funded by National Geographic Society grant no. FR-76808.