De inzet van burgers voor natuur en groen in Nederland : Een representatieve enquête onder groene vrijwilligers

Samenvatting

Volunteering for nature and greenspace: A representative survey of greenspace volunteers. Greenspace volunteers make an important contribution to nature conservation in the Netherlands. This report discusses the results of a representative survey of these volunteers. About 34% of the 10,799 respondents took part in voluntary activities for nature and greenspace during the past 12 months. The study distinguished between four groups of respondents, with a separate questionnaire for each group: individual volunteers (22% of the respondents), organisation volunteers (4%), initiative volunteers (8%) and non-volunteers (66%). The analysis focuses on the activities undertaken by volunteers, their level of engagement, what motivates them and how they became involved. Initiative and organisation volunteers were asked an additional set of questions, including about their networks and estimations of the impacts of their work in both ecological and social terms. Non-volunteers were asked about their interest in greenspace volunteering. The study emphasises the importance of representative data for long-term monitoring and proposes repeating the survey every five years to identify trends in greenspace volunteering.