Conservation of threatened natural habitats

Abstract

The aim of this book is to give a holistic setting to the conservation of plants and animals. Instead of concentrating on species alone, the aim is to spread the concern to the physical and biological features; including humanity that make up the habitat in which organisms live. All too often, it is not the species that is directly being destroyed, but its habitat. Lacking the essential support systems that the habitat once provided, the species then perishes as inevitably as if its individuals had been over-utilized into oblivion by a hungry humanity