The level of knowledge of the rural people on the ecological and biological aspects of the red fox (vulpesvulpes)‎ in sharya complex in duhok governorate in Kurdistan of Iraq abstract

الملخص EN

The success of the development process requires the integration of its components of conscious human elements and material support, and given the importance of Rural people knowledge in all areas of knowledge, especially those related to the environmental and biological aspects of the red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), which are the focus of the current research due to their great impacts on the fields of farmers and rural people.

this research aimed to identify the level of knowledge of the rural people about the ecological and biological information aspects of the red foxes in the (Sharya) complex, and the identification of the correlation between the level of the level of knowledge on the environmental and vital aspects of the red foxes as dependent variables and each of the following independent variables (age, gender, current occupation, educational level, and place of residence).

a simple random sample of 126 was chosen representing 25% of the study population, with the exception of the pilot sample (30), via a special questionnaire form consisting of two parts, the first of which is related to the independent variables, the second includes a test consisting of 17 items distributed in two domains (environmental and biological).after ensuring their face and content validity and validity of their contents, a consistency was measured by the cuder richardson method, followed by data collection and it was unpacked, categorized and statistically treated using a number of statistical methods.

due to the normal distribution of the data, frequencies, averages, percentages, spearman correlation coefficient, and correlation coefficient pearson were used to analyze the data.

this study revealed that, the level of knowledge of the rural people in the Sharya collective town is medium in environmental and vital aspects with a percentage (61.9%) and (53.2%), respectively, and the study did not show a correlation between the level of Knowledge and the following factors: (age, place of residence, and current profession), while the study showed a correlation between the level of Knowledge and (educational level, and gender).