Volunteers play an important role in the management of natural habitats. Understanding
what motivates volunteers to join conservation initiatives and how motivations change over …

Volunteers are increasingly involved in the delivery of nature conservation policies, usually
supported by a twofold rationale: volunteering can (a) enhance citizen participation in …

Volunteers are crucial for ecological research and nature conservation. However, despite
calls in the volunteering literature to look beyond recruitment only and pay more attention to …

To achieve sustained participation, community science projects aim to satisfy the motivations
and desired personal outcomes of their volunteers. Evaluating participation is, therefore …

Volunteers play a key role in natural resource management: their commitment, time and
labour constitute a major contribution towards managing environments in Australia and …

Biodiversity conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand is of high importance, and efforts to
protect vulnerable populations from decline has garnered broad public support …

Context As urbanisation continues to increase on a global scale, people are becoming
increasingly distanced from nature. Fewer opportunities to encounter nature mean that the …

Citizen science and participatory conservation offer benefits to urban wildlife and help foster
human–nature relationships in cities. To optimize conservation and social outcomes it is …

The benefits of citizen science to conservation, science, and socio-ecological systems as
well as to participants themselves are increasingly recognized and valued, yet what …

Participation in conservation citizen science projects is growing rapidly and approaches to
project design are diversifying. There has been a recent shift towards projects characterised …