Question

How can conservation biologists provide links between basic science and a public environmental movement? What suggestions can you make for ways in which conservation biologists and environmental activists can energize and enrich each other in working toward an economically and environmentally stable world?

Answer 1

Linking basic science with a public environmental movement is no easy task but not an impossible one to achieve either. The following suggestions and practices may help bring together conservation biologists and environmental activists together to make the world a better place environmentally and economically -

• Creating Awareness : Both the environmental activists and the conservation biologists work on different things in specialised niches however their work is only reported in research journals localised in their fields. The work must be expressed and discussed online and in popular newspapers and magazines so that it reaches all the people. This way the facts and theories could be explained in a simplified language and therefore understandable by all. This would also help researchers from other fields as well in understanding the biological and environmental phenomena occcuring in the world and they may devise techologies and theories in their field that may aid people working in the field of environment and vice versa.
• Enlarging Knowledge Spheres - Environmental activists working towards a cause should know all the technical knowhow of the cause, the pros, cons, the cause-effect consequences. They may also gain an upperhand by interacting with scientists specializing in the certain field and learning from them. They can also follow the prominent research journals to keep up with the research in the field of their working. imilarly, the biologists and the researchers should keep an update on the happenings outside their work sphere, they should understand the realtime use and consequences of their work and interact and collaborate with activists and other people working in the field.
• Identification of Sensitive and High Priority causes - Both the activists and the conservational biologists should convene on identifiying the most important areas that need immediate attention and work together to solve the problem. The activists can garner the attention of the public towards teh issue while the biologist can gather substantial proof and validate the severity of the issue.