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Explora: Environment
and Resource COVID-19 impact on forest biodiversity attitudes

Figure 3. Structural model (bootstrapping)

Figure 4. Moderating effect of coronavirus disease 2019 on bird extinction Figure 5. Moderating effect of coronavirus disease 2019 on mammal
and attitude extinction and attitude

public attitudes toward mammal extinction and biodiversity on public lives, are shown in Figures 2 and 3. The R
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conservation. The result also shows no moderating effect on values strongly predict mammal extinction (0.315), bird
the relationship between plant extinction and the public’s extinction (0.312), and plant extinction (0.329) as the
attitude toward biodiversity conservation. endogenous variables.

6. Discussion The results showed that the public’s perceptions of
deforestation and biodiversity loss, specifically mammal
The structural model, consisting of endogenous extinction, plant extinction, and bird extinction, statistically
constructs, was analyzed using the bootstrapping correlate with the public attitude toward biodiversity
method with 5000 resamples in SMART-PLS software. conservation in Malaysia. There is a significant moderating
The model fitness analysis depicting the total effect on impact of COVID-19 on mammal extinction and the public
the public attitude for preserving biodiversity through attitude, whereas no moderating effect is found for plant and
analyzing the extinction of living organisms (mammal, bird extinctions. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 drew
plant, and bird species), and the impact of a pandemic a great deal of media attention and hence public awareness

Volume 1 Issue 1 (2024) 11 doi: 10.36922/eer.3615