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85% of visitors indicate positive change towards conservation actions

Our research is not just about animal welfare. 

It's also about making changes in conservation attitudes in humans and inspire them into taking a conservation action!

We've already got great indication that interacting with animals helps create this change. Help us get to the next step by backing our research and help us make a bigger impact in our next phase of the research.

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About This Project

When great apes exert control over their environment their welfare improves, and when zoo visitors have opportunities to interact with great apes their desire to conserve them increases. Although digital tools can offer this, many zoos and sanctuaries are yet to integrate them into their management strategies due to lack of research. The study will look at the effects of digital free-choice on animal welfare, and conservation attitude changes via direct interactions

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