Conservation ethic - Introduction

The Conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its forests, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to protect the natural world. Conservation ethic - Introduction. To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by many groups with a wide vari ...

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• Conservation ethic - Introduction
• Conservation ethic - Usage of term
• Conservation ethic - History of biological conservation
• Conservation ethic - Romantic-Transcendental
• Conservation ethic - Resource Conservation
• Conservation ethic - Evolutionary-Ecological
• Conservation ethic - External link

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To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by many groups with a wide variety of motivations. These issues and groups are covered in their own articles. To protect sea life from extinction due to overfishing is another commonly stated goal of conservation - ensuring that "some will be available for our children" to continue a way of life. The consumer conservation ethic is best expressed by the four R's: Reduce ...

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The origins of biological conservation can be traced to philosophical and religious beliefs about Man as a full part of Nature: The Torah, or Old Testament discusses the concept of the Sabbatical Year, a period whereby the fields are left fallow, presumably in order to rejuvenate the soil. This would appear to be an ancient form of the ecological practice of crop rotation. The weekly Sabbath is also a time when beasts of burden are given rest from their work. The Torah further prohibits the destruction of fruit bearing trees, and th ...

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Conservation ethic, Conservation ethic - Introduction, Conservation ethic - Usage of term, Conservation ethic - History of biological conservation, Conservation ethic - Romantic-Transcendental, Conservation ethic - Resource Conservation, Conservation ethic - Evolutionary-Ecological, Conservation ethic - External link

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The origins of biological conservation can be traced to philosophical and religious beliefs about Man as a full part of Nature: Taoist and Shintoist philosophies encourage recognition of special sites, allowing spiritual experiments. Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism, grant a sacred value to animals. Primitive religions also recognize sacred values to sites such as forests, lakes, mountains. Islam recognizes each species as its own "nation", and an obligation of man to khalifa, or "stewardship" of the Earth. Specific conservation m ...

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Conservation ethic, Conservation ethic - Introduction, Conservation ethic - Usage of term, Conservation ethic - History of biological conservation, Conservation ethic - Romantic-Transcendental, Conservation ethic - Resource Conservation, Conservation ethic - Evolutionary-Ecological, Conservation ethic - External link

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In common usage, the term refers to the activity of systematically protecting natural resources such as forests, including biological diversity. Carl F. Jordan defines the term in his book Replacing Quantity With Quality As a Goal for Global Management "biological conservation as being a philosophy of managing the environment in a manner that does not despoil, exhaust or extinguish." While that usage is not new, the idea of biological conservation has been applied to the principles of ecology, biogeography, anthropol ...

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Conservation ethic, Conservation ethic - Introduction, Conservation ethic - Usage of term, Conservation ethic - History of biological conservation, Conservation ethic - Romantic-Transcendental, Conservation ethic - Resource Conservation, Conservation ethic - Evolutionary-Ecological, Conservation ethic - External link

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