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Takashina, Nao; Cheung, Hubert; Miyazawa, Mieko
Conservation science and practice, 20/May , Volume: 5, Issue: 5Journal Article
Conservation needs adequate support and funding to address our ecological crises. People support conservation in different ways, from social media engagement to donating money. Various factors influence how people choose to support conservation, including social norms and ecological status. The rise of social media has provided people with an easy and low‐cost way to support conservation: sharing information online. How valuable is social media engagement and activism for conservation funding and outcomes? Here, we develop an evolutionary game‐theoretic framework to understand the complex interactions between individuals in the context of social media information sharing, conservation philanthropy, and how these interactions ultimately impact ecological outcomes. From a game theory perspective, we can consider donors to be hard‐cooperators, sharers of information on social media to be soft‐cooperators, and those who do nothing to be non‐cooperators. Our model shows that soft‐cooperators can help stabilize conservation funding flows and develop social norms. Supporting conservation through social media sharing can ultimately contribute to conservation success. Our study conceptualizes the complex decision‐making processes of conservation funding and affirms the importance and value of mobilizing all types of supporters in conservation. In this manuscript, we develop a novel game‐theoretic framework to understand the complex interactions between individuals in the context of information sharing on social media, conservation philanthropy, and how these interactions ultimately impact ecological outcomes. Our results demonstrate the importance of mobilizing people who are weakly engaged in conservation action to stabilize funding flow and ecological status.
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