📢📢 New paper alert, lead by @YorkUEUC PhD student @TripNyssa in collab w/ @VJMacPhail & @FoE_Canada. Some key results in below. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs…
We commissioned a polling company to do a phone survey across Canada to learn more about what Canadians know abiut bees and pollination.
The most concerning finding was that about half of Canadians though the European Honeybee was native species 😟
12% of respondants could not name a single native bee type though 2/3 of respondents valued the ecosystem services provided by bees.
42% of those interviewed believe all bees are endangered and pesticides and loss of flowers were the top ranked threats. Clearly we need much better #SciComm about this.
City-dwellers were more likely to think intensive agriculture is a key threat than rural respondants.
2/3 of respondants were unsure if honeybees could replace native bees for pollination services.
We found differences in level of concern between provinces and party affiliation. E.g. people in BC & QC having the highest levels of concern and CPC voters a low level of concern.
Half of the respondents believed the federal and provincial governments should take action to protect pollinators though respondents from SK and MB were more likely to say responsibility lies w/ the individual or ag sector.
There's lots more in there so we hope you will give this #OA paper a read and hopefully it will help govt agencies and ENGOs frame pollinator conservation initiatives in a useful way depending on the audience.
Ping @NigelERaine @JayFitzsy @PoliticalOlive @pittman17 @faisal_moola @NCC_CNC @WPCWild911 @OntarioNature @DavidSuzukiFDN @BeesYork
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