Birds increase human happiness, study finds
Birds increase human happiness, study finds Share This: Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Print this Article Share to Email The number of bird species in a person’s surroundings correlates to happiness, according to a new quality-of-life study of more than 26,000 adults from 26 European countries. Adding 10 percent more bird species to a vicinity increases the life satisfaction of Europeans at least as much as a comparable increase in income, the study notes. Nature conservation thus constitutes an investment in human well-being, according to the researchers. Under the current pandemic conditions, activities out in nature are a popular pastime. The beneficial effects of a diverse nature on people’s mental health have already been documented by studies on a smaller scale. Scientists of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, the iDiv, and the University of Kiel now examined for the first time whether a diverse nature also increases human well-being across the continent. To