Climate Change and Informal Education in the Opinion of Forest Users in Poland

Climate change affects various aspects of the economy, agriculture, economics, and politics, including forestry. There is more talk about real impact effects climate change. This paper presents results a survey on perceptions two groups, foresters recreational forest users, its impacts forested areas; 130 146 users participated in (total n = 276). The was conducted from April to November 2019 consisted three parts. first part included questions demographic characteristics respondents (gender, age, education, place residence), second focused respondents’ views implications for ecosystems, third informal education relationship our study indicated that progressive affecting ecosystems clearly felt by professional group related forests such as foresters, lesser extent people using tourism recreation. According areas include rapid changes weather patterns frequent insect infestations. On other hand, resting mainly observe lack snow cover occurrence drought. Informal insufficiently covers topic Thus, can help guide towards topics need sustainable use.