4.6 Conservation Ethics

In the last few decades, the environment has become one of our central ethical battlegrounds. How are we to balance our need for resources with our need to sustain them for ourselves and our descendants? The Websites below can help you think about that perplexing question.

• The Importance of Ethics in Conservation Biology: Let's Be Ethicists not Ostriches
  The University of Michigan
  
  
• The Center for a New American Dream
  
  
  
• Eco-Spirit
  

Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) was a leading ecologist whose attitudes toward land conservation endure to our present day. Anyone concerned with the ethics of ecology—a concern that should become more and more pressing as time passes—should be familiar with his work. The sites listed below introduce Aldo Leopold's enduring legacy.

• The Aldo Leopold Foundation
  
  
  
• About Aldo Leopold
  Bigeastern.com
  
  
• The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
  
  
  
• The Aldo Leopold Nature Center
  

National Environmental Centers

• Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
  
• The National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment
  
  
  
• Global Warming Information Center
  The National Center for Public Policy Research
  
  
• National Center for Environmental Health
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  
• National Council for Science and the Environment
  
  
  
• Center for Environmental Citizenship