Do Forest Experience, Socialization and Demographic Characteristics Affect the Attitudes toward Hunting of Youths from Urban Areas?

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The submitted manuscript focuses on a very important topic, which is crucial for the functioning of sustainable forestry, game management, its continuation and especially its development. The whole manuscript is well written, the methodology well thought out and the evaluation sufficient to validate a pilot study. The authors themselves state that this is a pilot study, prior to a national survey, which will be crucial for the next steps.

I am not a social scientist, but as a wildlife biologist, I have no critical comments on the manuscript presented. I very much like the idea of the manuscript and am surprised at the results. I look forward to future results from this group of authors that will help forestry and game management throughout Europe. I wish the authors the best of luck in their future work.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Authors provide very interesting results of attitudes of “rural” professions. This problems, at first were emphasised in post-communist countries, but, nowadays they are also present in some highly development states (f.e. USA). Fundamental problem is depopulation of rural places, moving to (big) towns which lead to abandoning of land (successions). But, it is only the beginning of problem. The paper point out about social consequences of the activities. Can we return a part of urban population back to nature, not only for filling gapes in deficient professions, but for rural recreation – it is one of crucial questions.

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