Concept information
Preferred term
habitat protection
Definition
- Habitat protection refers to a range of human-initiated approaches, strategies, and interventions to avoid the potentially detrimental consequences of anthropogenic activities—such as harvesting, gathering, hunting, logging, mining, agriculture, and residential or commercial development—to habitats (the abiotic and biotic components) necessary for the survival of species deemed significant. In many cases, early protection efforts targeted the habitats of species with particular utilitarian value, such as charismatic wildlife or game animals; and unusual and rare species endangered or threatened with extinction. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Habitat Protection]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/habitat_protection
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