Environment / Auckland Region

Kauri dieback: How do we make people clean their shoes?

13:30 pm on 8 October 2019

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If you've been for a trek on DoC land over the last year or so, you'd have noticed cleaning stations for your shoes to help quell the spread of Kauri dieback. 

But the other focus for DOC has been figuring out what makes people comply with requests to clean their shoes - what makes us change our behaviour? Research was conducted and Joanne Aley is here to tell us what they found.