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FOREWORD

A concept of 'ecology' (Greek Oikos - home) was introduced into literature by E. Haeckel (1886), a German zoologist who defined it as a general science of interrelationships between organisms in the environment. But from its theoretical identification to its practical implementation there passed over 100 years. Only since the 60s of the passed century the ecology has been shaped as a branch of knowledge. By the present time the ecology has become an independent school and is defined as a science about regularities of origin and functioning of biological systems and their interrelationships with the environment. For the recent period, a sphere of ecological studies has been significantly enlarged, a database of compiled ecological terms has been extended by many times. This is re-edition of the Uzbek-Russian-English glossary on ecology as well as on the environmental protection published in 2004 which was very popular. The Environmental Publishing House "Chinor ENK", taking into account a particular actuality of a present subject-matter, offers the Uzbek-Russian-English Environmental Glossary containing about 1000 terms on various branches of ecological knowledge to consideration of its readers.