Environmental conflict is a conflict caused over environmental degradation in the course of mismanagement of environmental resources.[1][2][3] Usually several parties are involved, including environmental defenders who want to protect the environment, and those who want to or are mismanaging the environment for something else, typically extractive industry.[1] The mismanager of the environmental resources may be causing overuse or extraction of a renewable resource (i.e. overfishing or Deforestation), causing overstrain on the ability of the environment to respond to pollution and other inputs, or degrading the living space for humans and nature.[4]