The flora and fauna on our planet is great and diverse. According to one popular expression, man is the crown of nature, the main result of its development. In this case, it does not matter at all whether he was created by the Almighty or accidentally descended from a monkey. The main thing is that he appeared and began to behave on Earth as a master. Of course, it did not emerge overnight as a manager of available resources. And the protection of nature did not stand before him as a primary task. Quite the contrary, the agenda was to take as much from the environment as possible with as little effort as possible.
At a certain stage of its development, the human community maintained a balance of consumption and reproduction of the surrounding vegetation. Natural landscapes, if they suffered damage from human activity, were restored in a short time and compensated for the damage caused to them. This also appliedvegetation, and animal life. It should be noted that the protection of nature has long been a subject of human concern, but not because, unlike the rest of the animal world, it was endowed with reason and consciousness. To a large extent, the instinct of self-preservation worked.
For a long time, the deadlines for hunting wild animals have been set. It was necessary not only to obtain valuable fur and a nutritious product, but also to enable animals to multiply. It was not yet a society for the protection of nature, but the first conscious actions to save it. The large-scale use of natural resources began as a result of the development of science and technology. Wood turned out to be the resource that is in demand in various spheres of human activity. In order to meet the growing demand, deforestation began on all continents. As a result, streams and rivers began to shallow and disappear.
Many species of animals and birds, deprived of their usual habitat, began to disappear. By this time, nature conservation had become an urgent need. The fact is that by changing the quality of the habitat for wild animals, people have unwittingly changed their own living conditions. Today, everyone is well aware that in large cities there is practically no clean air. The atmosphere here is heavy with smoke from chimneys and car exhausts. The situation is exactly the same with drinking water. That is why the protection of nature in Russia has become the most important task. If you delay with its decision, then the entire territory of the country risksturn into a huge dump.
Currently, state and public structures face a complex task - nature protection cannot be limited to some local project. The first thing to pay attention to is the conservation of the still available natural resources. For these purposes, reserves, sanctuaries and national parks are being created. Here animals and vegetation are in their natural conditions, and human activity is limited to the minimum limit. The second direction is soil reclamation and restoration of fauna in those territories where industrial activity was previously carried out. These can be cuts, quarries, clearings and other land plots.
