Factors Affecting Decisions on the Conservation of Nature

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Factors affecting decisions on conservation of nature.
The Discovery of new minerals can provide economic benefits to the mining companies and the community at large. However, improper location of mining sites may lead to environmental degradation and loss of nature's biodiversity. The debate between economic gain and conservation of nature sparked again last year when the Army Corps of Engineers denied Pebble Limited Partnership a permit to mining one of the world's largest gold and copper ore deposits Bristol Bay. The New York Times reports that the debate over mining at Bristol Bay, or the Pebble Mining Project, has been raging over the last ten years ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Gl7HH3F2","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Fountain)","plainCitation":"(Fountain)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":168,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/U8UQNYWS"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/U8UQNYWS"],"itemData":{"id":168,"type":"webpage","container-title":"New York Times","title":"Alaska’s Controversial Pebble Mine Fails to Win Critical Permit, Likely Killing It","URL":"/2020/11/25/climate/pebble-mine-permit-denied.html","author":[{"family":"Fountain","given":"Henry"}],"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2021",4,14]]},"issued":{"date-parts":[["2020",11,25]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Fountain). The deposits site is adjacent to Bristol Bay, which is well known as a breeding ground for salmon. Environmentalists, natives, and fishermen argued that the open-pit mini...