American ecologist and conservationist who developed the land ethic — the extension of moral community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals — and founded the science of wildlife management.
The land ethic: a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community; it is wrong when it tends otherwise. Expanded the scope of ethics from persons to the entire biotic community.
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