ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: AN APPROACH TO CONSERVE THE NATURE

Abstract

Our obligation towards the environment and other species is the environmental ethics, we being a part of environment have a right to draw our requirements from the environment, but certainly not to the extent that degrade the environment and harm other species, it is our duty to save the environment for other species and for future generations. Polluting the environment and depleting the natural resources are dangerous and selfish human acts, and against the principles of ethics. Man should make a sincere effort to repair the environment and renew the natural resource so that all species survive in nature this will be a right ethical behaviour. To fulfil this objective, conservation strategies play important role, it concern with phenomena of restoration and science of sustaining evolutionary processes includes protecting species their habitats and ecosystem from excessive rate of extinction and erosion of biotic interactions. Ethics is the discipline concerned with morality and moral obligation, with emphasis on the determination of right and wrong, it demand that man should change his present attitude towards nature and learn to live as a part of nature.  So the, Environmental ethics is a sub-discipline of philosophy that deals with the ethical problems surrounding environmental protection. It aims to provide ethical justification and moral motivation for the cause of global environmental protection.