Naturalists are predominantly elderly.
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Naturalists are predominantly elderly.
Is this because they were socialised as children in a time when there was a greater abundance and variety of wildlife and were more free to roam or is it simply that in retirement they have time to let their interest flower?
If the former, we are in danger of seeing a collapse in data gathering for anything other than birds and butterflies, putting the natural world in greater danger.
If it is just a stage of life thing, there will be steady replacement and data will continue to flow.
Any thoughts?
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Naturalists are predominantly elderly.
Is this because they were socialised as children in a time when there was a greater abundance and variety of wildlife and were more free to roam or is it simply that in retirement they have time to let their interest flower?
If the former, we are in danger of seeing a collapse in data gathering for anything other than birds and butterflies, putting the natural world in greater danger.
If it is just a stage of life thing, there will be steady replacement and data will continue to flow.
Any thoughts?
@lionelb My connections to nature started in my early childhood in the 1960s but I didn't have the time with university and then the job for researching more. I got back (including my podcast) when I was fre enough to change the topics of my job.
Volunteering in a nature park in France, I see a lot of very young school children who educate their parents! We use modern methods like ID-apps when going into nature with them. They see other species than we saw in our childhood but they are so aware
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