Investigating the English public's awareness of the Bern Convention and their education on environmental issues and laws

Abstract This paper investigates the knowledge of general public on legislative framework relating to wildlife conservation in England, with a specific focus Bern Convention and public's awareness treaty, as well domestic legislation transposing it. By creating publicly available survey, study determined environmental attitudes their regime conservation. Whilst majority displayed pro-environmental support for greater efforts towards flora fauna, overall was worryingly low, only 5.6% respondents recognising Convention. Accordingly, investigated how may be increased. Ultimately, concludes that formal education, including legislation, must optimised, should further consolidated.