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  1. Classic Psychedelics and Human-Animal Relations

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    | Contributor(s):: Pöllänen, E., Osika, W., Stenfors, C. U. D., Simonsson, O.

    Previous research has found associations between classic psychedelic use and nature-relatedness, but the link between classic psychedelic use and human-animal relations remains largely unexplored. Using data representative of the US adult population, with regard to age, sex and ethnicity (N =...

  2. Effects of the artificial reef and flow field environment on the habitat selection behavior of Sebastes schlegelii juveniles

    | Contributor(s):: Li, Jiajia, Li, Jiao, Gong, Pihai, Guan, Changtao

    With pollution and disturbances in marine ecological environments, the quality and structure of fish habitats in offshore regions have exhibited drastic decreasing trends. Artificial reefs are a vital engineering measure for restoring such degraded marine habitats. In this study, the quantitative...

  3. Song of the Ovsîanka: Enhanced Nature of the Urban Canary in Imperial St. Petersburg (1880–1900)

    | Contributor(s):: Petri, Olga

  4. Encounters with whales '93 : a conference to further explore the management isues relating to human/whale interactions

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    | Contributor(s):: Deb Postle, Mark Simmons

    Within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park there has also been an increase over the past few years in the number of tourist operators applying for permits to run commercial whale watching activities. In the Whitsunday Islands region, which is already a heavily used recreational and commercial...

  5. Dog ownership, the natural outdoor environment and health: a cross-sectional study

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    | Contributor(s):: Wilma L Zijlema, Hayley Christian, Margarita Triguero-Mas, Marta Cirach, Magdalena van den Berg, Jolanda Maas, Christopher J Gidlow, Hanneke Kruize, Wanda Wendel-Vos, Sandra Andrušaitytė, Regina Grazuleviciene, Jill Litt, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

  6. "Recovering With Nature": A Review of Ecotherapy and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic

    | Contributor(s):: Chaudhury, P., Banerjee, D.

  7. Performing Whale-Watching in Juneau, Alaska

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    | Contributor(s):: Chelsea Karthauser

    Nature-based tourism activities provide special contexts for human-wildlife interaction. In Juneau, Alaska, summertime tourists seek encounters with humpback whales, hundreds of which feed seasonally in Southeast Alaska’s coastal waterways. Tourists support a thriving whale-watching...

  8. From Human Wellbeing to an Ecocentric Perspective: How Nature-Connectedness Can Extend the Benefits of Marine Wildlife Experiences

    | Contributor(s):: Yerbury, Rachel, Weiler, Betty

    Contact with nature and experiences with nonhuman animals have been shown to contribute to nature connection and human wellbeing, both of which are innate needs according to the biophilia hypothesis. This study explores what marine mammal encounters mean to people and how they affect connection...

  9. I was not born with a mask!

    | Contributor(s):: Erasmo de Oliveira

    Year 2020. The Mankind “evolved” frighteningly (in the broadest sense of this word); It created wings, conquered other planets, played God by manipulating DNA and the atom. Today, it is very “natural” to use a smartphone, but it seems ridiculous to hear the silence and...

  10. Human–Dolphin Interactions: Relationships, Connections, and the Reinforcement of an Ongoing Nature Relationship

    | Contributor(s):: Yerbury, Rachel M., Boyd, William E.

    Although interactions between humans and wild animals have been explored in the literature, the mechanism for how such experiences influence wellbeing is an area needing further examination. This research used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore the narratives of wellbeing from...

  11. Improved Wellbeing for Both Caretakers and Users from A Zoo-Related Nature Based Intervention-A Study at Nordens Ark Zoo, Sweden

    | Contributor(s):: Sahlin, E., Johansson, B., Karlsson, P. O., Loberg, J., Niklasson, M., Grahn, P.

    Nature-based interventions have been proposed to promote physical and mental health and give stress reduction. Little attention has been given to the potential of zoos for human health and wellbeing. A disadvantaged group in Sweden regarding access to nature are individuals with disabilities who...

  12. On the Origins of Animalist Marxism: Rereading Ted Benton and the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

    | Contributor(s):: Stache, Christian

  13. Naturecultures and the affective (dis)entanglements of happy meat

    | Contributor(s):: Bruckner, Heide K., Colombino, Annalisa, Ermann, Ulrich

  14. Marx and Alienated Speciesism

    | Contributor(s):: Foster, John Bellamy, Clark, Brett

  15. Evaluating a supported nature play programme, parents’ perspectives

    | Contributor(s):: Ward, Tanya, Goldingay, Sophie, Parson, Judi

  16. Nature experience promotes preference for and willingness to coexist with wild animals among urban and suburban residents in Malaysia

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    | Contributor(s):: Huda Farhana Mohamad Muslim, Hosaka Tetsuro, Numata Shinya, Noor Azlin Yahya

    Introduction A decline in direct experience with nature can lead to disaffection of natural environments, wildlife, and public indifference towards biodiversity conservation. This study measured on affective attitude towards wildlife (i.e., preferences for and willingness to coexist with 22...

  17. METHODS FOR MULTISPECIES ANTHROPOLOGY: Thinking with Salmon Otoliths and Scales

    | Contributor(s):: Swanson, Heather Anne

  18. Snared: Ethics and Nature in Animal Protection

    | Contributor(s):: Reed, Adam

  19. Review: Donna J Haraway, Manifestly Haraway: The Cyborg Manifesto, The Companion Species Manifesto, Companions in Conversation (with Cary Wolfe)

    | Contributor(s):: Latimer, Joanna

  20. Why Not the City?: Urban Hawk Watching and the End of Nature

    | Contributor(s):: Hunold, Christian