THE PRESERVATION OF NATURAL HABITATS

Abstract

The term ‘environment’ can have a lot of interpretations and has a wide variety of uses in different areas of human society.

Scientists, economists, lawmakers, politicians and artists have been made aware of the overwhelming importance of the necessity of environmental protection and all describe certain aspects of the environment which, in truth, is unique.

There are, however, as usual two different meanings to the word ‘environment’. The first arose from the natural sciences and is related to human society and as such has an ecological approach (the de facto mix of elements and equilibriums which condition the live of a biological group). The second, which is derived from the terminology used by architects and urbanites and which refers to the contact area between the natural and the developed spaces (between the artificial and natural spaces).