The environment is the Physical surrounding of a place.  It is also the combination of conditions that affect growth and development of an organism.  We are all required to take care of  or surroundings for the basic reason that we live in an environment and are directly affected by its current state.

　Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the environment on individual, organizational or governmental level, for the benefit of the national environment and humans.  Due to the pressures of population and our technology, the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently.

　Nowadays protection of the environment is very important as the world is moving into a new era without considering any of the major problems of pollution with rapid industrialization.  The best way to protect the environment is conservation.

　A clean and healthy environment is part and parcel of the wealth and quality of life that we desire for ourselves now and for our children in the future.  Healthy and balanced natural systems are essential for supporting life on this planet.   Society relies on nature to provide us with resources for our survival – air water, food, fibers’, medicines and building materials.  Children need to grow up aware of the nature around them.  As human beings we have a responsibility to preserve the  actual value of nature both for ourselves and for future generations.

　Another notable effect of environmental degradation faced worldwide is global warming and all the issues caused by it.  The ever increasing temperatures that start forest fires, the sunscalds, that cause death, and the sudden dangerous flood caused by EL Nino are just a few mega-effects arising due to global warming.  The worst is yet to come.  So much money is always being spent on environment awareness conventions but little constructive action is taken; its all empty rhetoric.  Meanwhile, industries keep emitting toxins in the air; they also just dispose their toxic chemical effluents to the landfills and water bodies to the detriment of ecosystem.  Natural ecosystems are destroyed by human activities; trees are cut for fuel and land cleared for farming and water catchments areas are encroached and in turn destroyed.  All these contribute to global warming and destruction of natural surroundings.

　The environment protection act 1990 is an act of the parliament of United Kingdom that as of 2008 defines, within England and Wales and Scotland, the fundamental structure and authority for waste management and control of emission into the environment.  The Act superseded the requirements under section 1(i)(d) of the Health and safety at work etc.  Act 1974 in respect of controlling noxious emission.  In operating year 2005/2006, the EPA brought 880 prosecutions with an average fine of about 1,700pounds and 736 in 2006/2007 with an average fine of 6,773 pounds.  There have also been sentences of imprisonment including two of over 26 months in 2006.2007. 

　So the protection of the environment is necessary for the present as well as for future generation.