Biophilia and the Conservation Ethic

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Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions (2016, background): “From an evolutionary perspective, Wilson ( 1984 , 1993 ) further argued that humanity has an intimate emotional attachment to nature, and especially to living biota, that is deeply rooted in our biology.”
Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime (2015, background): “2000) and that social cohesion is particularly important in this respect (Wilkinson 1991).”
Nature as children's space: A systematic review (2017, background): “The biophilia concept relates to the notion that people have an innate predilection toward nature and living things—the “innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms” (Wilson, 1993, p. 31).”