Scholarly works in Wildlife and Ecotourism Management

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    Assesing the knowledge, perception, and attitude of wildlife management students toward biodiversity conservation in Nigeria
    (John Wiley & Sons, 2023) Ajayi, O. O.; Coker, O. M.; Agbon, Z.
    Despite intensified media campaigns and heightened emphasis on classroom instruction, recent international research has reported that young people are still failing to acknowledge biodiversity conservation as an issue of high priority. This study assessed students' knowledge, perception, and attitude toward biodiversity conservation in three Federal Universities offering Wildlife Management course in Southwestern Nigeria. A total of 159 respondents (15% sampling intensity) were surveyed using a structured questionnaire between July and December 2021. The findings revealed that most students had low knowledge of biodiversity conservation. This result is quite shocking given that they were enrolled in wildlife management courses. On the other hand, they had favorable attitudes and perceptions. The result further revealed that students in University of Ibadan had better attitude and perception. We concluded that there is a need to develop and teach programs and curricula that encourage and sustain the interests of wildlife students in biodiversity conservation.
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    Consumers' knowledge on nutritional and medicinal values of tender coconut water among dwellers in Badagry area of Lagos State, Nigeria
    (2018-03) Oyewole, M. F.; Apata, O. C.
    The study evaluated consumers' knowledge on the nutritional and medicinal values of tender coconut water in Badagry Area of Lagos State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 117 respondents. Data were collected using structured questionnaire on respondents' personal characteristics, source of information, constraints and knowledge on nutritional and medicinal values of coconut water. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study revealed that 37.6% of respondents were between 22-31 years, 58.0% were males, 48.7% had tertiary education, friends and relatives (0.86) was the most used source of information by consumers, storage facilities (0.85) was the most severe constraint 53.4% of the respondents had low knowledge of nutritional and medicinal values of tender coconut water. There were significant relationship between constraints (r=0:201, p=0.000), soured of information (r= 0.204, p=0.005) and knowledge of nutritional and medicinal values of coconut water. The study concludes that there was low respondents knowledge on nutritional and medicinal values of tender coconut water. It is therefore recommended that nutritionist and health workers should sensitize people on the nutritional and medicinal values of tender coconut water.