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Preservation and sustainable management of the natural heritage are considered to be basic socio-economic problems. Until recently they have not been extensively investigated by researchers, particularly in terms of sustainable social and economic development. In economic analyses this problem is discussed in terms of anthropogenic capital, natural capital, primary natural capital or cultivated natural capital. Primary natural capital constitutes the inviolable natural heritage. It provides several services: provisioning raw materials, production and transformation, regulating and waste treatment, provisioning space for human use, as well as educational and cultural services. We need to consider economic activity from the point of view of preservation and sustainable management of natural heritage. This paper discusses problems of preservation and sustainable use of natural heritage in agriculture, forestry and nature conservation. At present protection and sustainable management of natural heritage are the necessary pre-requisites for the maintenance of evolutionary processes, i.e. future existence of both the biosphere and mankind.