Environmental protection involves governments and individuals placing restraints on activities that degrade the natural world. Effective environmental protection addresses global issues like climate change, resource depletion and loss of biodiversity. It also promotes sustainability and ensures healthy ecosystems and healthy environments for humans to live in.

Some examples of environmental protection are creating parks and nature reserves for wilderness areas, regulating the release of toxic chemicals into the environment, limiting the use of fossil fuels, and ensuring that radiation released from nuclear power plants is not absorbed by local ecosystems. The idea of environmental protection has become increasingly important and a number of environmental movements have been created to address concerns about the impact of human activity on the natural environment.

One of the most common ways to protect the environment is by using sustainable business practices. This means companies should prioritize reducing their carbon footprint, decreasing waste production and prioritizing the use of materials that are sustainably sourced. This will not only help reduce environmental damage, but will also benefit the company in terms of cost savings and a positive brand reputation.

Environmental protection has a wide variety of applications and is a complex issue to deal with. It is sometimes difficult to find an appropriate balance between the various interests involved, such as ensuring that environmental protection does not impede economic growth and development. According to the ICRP, there are three dominant ‘ethical views’ which influence the way we perceive environmental protection: the anthropocentric view, the biocentrism view and the utilitarian view.