Teenagers’ Awareness about Local Vertebrates and Their Functions: Strengthening Community Environmental Education in a Mexican Shade-Coffee Region to Foster Animal Conservation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area, Community Program, and Participants
2.2. The Intervention
2.3. Evaluation: Pre- and Post-Intervention Questionnaires
2.4. Data Analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Andresen, E.; López-del-Toro, P.; Franquesa-Soler, M.; Mora, F.; Barraza, L. Teenagers’ Awareness about Local Vertebrates and Their Functions: Strengthening Community Environmental Education in a Mexican Shade-Coffee Region to Foster Animal Conservation. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8684. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208684
Andresen E, López-del-Toro P, Franquesa-Soler M, Mora F, Barraza L. Teenagers’ Awareness about Local Vertebrates and Their Functions: Strengthening Community Environmental Education in a Mexican Shade-Coffee Region to Foster Animal Conservation. Sustainability. 2020; 12(20):8684. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208684
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndresen, Ellen, Paulina López-del-Toro, Montserrat Franquesa-Soler, Francisco Mora, and Laura Barraza. 2020. "Teenagers’ Awareness about Local Vertebrates and Their Functions: Strengthening Community Environmental Education in a Mexican Shade-Coffee Region to Foster Animal Conservation" Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8684. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208684