Abstract
Bako National Park (BNP) is a protected area that supports a
conservation-themed interpretation that seeks to surge public awareness on
conservation of natural resources, encourage them to join with the conservation
efforts, and develop an ecocentric attitude. However, it is unclear to what extent
they are aware of the principal objective of establishing BNP that has been
gazetted as one of Malaysia's national parks. The study focuses on the
feasibility and approach to examine the level of knowledge, attitude, and
experience towards biodiversity conservation among the local community and
visitors in BNP. The validated questionnaires were distributed to 40
respondents, comprised of local community and visitors in BNP by simple
random sampling. The local community have a higher level of attitude towards
biodiversity conservation than visitors. It was found that the knowledge
(α=0.82), attitude (α=0.66), and experience (α=0.74) constructs have achieved
the minimum acceptable reliability coefficient in this study. Even though this
study provides good reliable data, it still possesses a weak correlation between
constructs due to its small sample size. It has several limitations and suggestions
that need to be considered for the improvement of future studies. Thus, it is
recommended to extend for a large scale of data collection to elucidate the
current phenomena with significant correlation value.