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Why do people become conservationists?

By James Swan
ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

No one questions that we need to expand and preserve the conservation ethic to save and manage wildlife, but how do you do that? Interviewing hundreds of people about what got them started as conservationists, almost uniformly I have found that they can recall one or more powerful, positive emotional experiences in nature that got them started. Such experiences most often take place in childhood, and they are more important than books, TV shows, school programs, etc. to cultivating appreciati ...

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