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Nature conservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

John Morton Boyd
John Morton Boyd
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Nature Conservancy Council, 12 Hope Terrace, Edinburgh EH9 2AS
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Conservation of nature is a culture of the twentieth century possessing its own philosophical, ethical and scientific frame which is distinct from those of agriculture, forestry and other producer industries. In the latter, conservation is directed towards the creation and maintenance of the quality and quantity of the product, be it cereal, wood pulp or automobiles; in the former, nature conservation is directed towards the maintenance of numbers of different species distributed in different assemblages of natural or semi-natural type and towards the care of geological and physiographical features.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 84: Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland , 1983 , pp. 295 - 336
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1983

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