Biologist Ad van Gestel told RTV Utrecht last year that various factors are important in how much people like to see the wolf come to the province. “The most important thing is how people see themselves in relation to nature. In science, we call that the human-nature relationship,” said van Gestel, who researched the perception of the wolf. According to him, the place where someone lives also makes a lot of difference. “People in the city will be less ‘bothered’ by a wolf than people who live in a wooded area.”
Resistance to the wolf grows with age and what is even more striking about the results from the Kieskompas
