Johari Jalinas School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, 43650 Bangi E-mail:johari_j@ukm.

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only hope.
Wendell Berry (1934 ) American novelist and poet

1. Conserving ecosystems is an ethical issue. No species has the right to destroy another. Most societies, primitive and modern, promote a live and let live philosophy. Acknowledging that we share the world with many other species, we should not be responsible for the loss of any other species

2. We conserve ecosystems for esthetic reasons. The beauty of all natural habitats should be protected. 3. We need to conserve our ecosystems for scientific reasons. Whether or not it is apparent to us now, any species may prove to have significant scientific value to the human population in the future. Protecting our environment now will help ensure the health and happiness of future generations.

4. We must conserve what is useful to us. We simply could not survive without the plants and animals on which our civilizations depend. Whether it is the plant-generated oxygen we breathe or domestic animals and crops that sustain enormous human populations, allowing any species to become endangered or extinct simply harms us in the end.

5. Perhaps the most urgent reason to conserve Earths ecosystems is to retain the biodiversity of life. Biodiversity can be described as the variety of life on Earth. Ecosystems are complex and dynamic

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