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Fostering hope in conservation efforts enhances engagement by increasing the identification and likelihood of adopting climate and plastic reduction actions. This approach strengthens, rather than diminishes, the perceived urgency of conservation challenges.

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  • Conservation Science
  • Social Psychology

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  • Nature loss and degradation can cause despair, potentially hindering conservation engagement.
  • Emerging movements like Conservation Optimism aim to mitigate despair in conservation.
  • The impact of fostering positive states (hope, optimism) on conservation engagement is debated, with concerns about potentially undermining perceived threat gravity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine whether fostering hope and optimism undermines or strengthens the appraisal of conservation challenges.
  • To quantify the relationship between dispositional hope and optimism and conservation engagement indicators.
  • To investigate the mediating factors of these relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Quantified dispositional hope and optimism in a representative sample of Australians (n=4285).
  • Assessed relationships with conservation engagement indicators using the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) as a case study.
  • Classified participant-identified actions into climate and plastic reduction categories; quantified action likelihood and appraisals of threats and actions.

Main Results:

  • Hope pathways (knowing different ways to act) were associated with greater capacity to identify climate and plastic reduction behaviors and higher likelihood of adopting climate actions.
  • Optimism was associated with recognition of plastic reduction behaviors.
  • Neither hope nor optimism undermined the appraisal of conservation threats; effects were mediated by reduced action futility and stronger threat/coping appraisals.

Conclusions:

  • Dispositional hope, particularly hope pathways, strengthens conservation engagement by enhancing the identification of and likelihood to perform relevant actions.
  • Hope and optimism do not undermine the perceived gravity of conservation challenges; instead, they can bolster threat and coping appraisals.
  • Fostering hope can be a viable strategy to increase conservation engagement without diminishing the perceived urgency of environmental issues.