caa a22 4500 388050608 CHVBK 20180307125052.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0814062600003967 doi S0814062600003967 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0814062600003967 Mazur Nicole Australian National University Canberra Between the Turnstiles: Zoos as Agents of Environmental Education [Elektronische Daten] [Nicole Mazur] Since the middle of the 20th century, zoological gardens have endeavoured to assist in the restoration of global, regional and national biodiversity. To help realise these conservation goals zoo professionals rely on formal and informal education schemes to enhance zoo visitors' awareness of environmental conservation issues. A questionnaire was administered at eight Australian zoos to elicit information regarding visitors' environmental knowledge and attitudes. Data from several open-ended questionnaire items were consistent with data from closed questions which intimated that zoo respondents appreciated zoos' conservation activities. However, a gap existed between visitors' endorsement of conservation and their level of conservation activism. This suggests that educational and interpretive materials used in zoos should include comprehensive and clearly intelligible information about a range of environmental values and means of involvement in action for conservation. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 71-80 0814-0626 14<71 1998 14 AEE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0814062600003967 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0814062600003967 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mazur Nicole Australian National University Canberra NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 71-80 0814-0626 14<71 1998 14 AEE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge