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Presentation This issue of the magazine História (São Paulo) brings readers the dossier Meio ambiente, museus e patrimônio (Environment, museums and heritage). Organized in collaboration with Dr. Paulo Henrique Martinez, from UNESP, the set of articles offers different perspectives on issues that have increasingly drawn the attention of scholars and society in Brazil and worldwide. Regina Horta analyzes the stimulating dialog between the environmental historian and civilian society in the face of ecological imbalances today. José Luiz de Andrade Franco discusses the formation of the concept of biodiversity and the emergence of conservation biology through articles, events, and the trajectory of researchers. The interaction between society and nature in the past is investigated by Marcelo Lapuente Mahl in the context of coffee expansion in Northwest Paulista, through publications, photographs, and illustrations of that time. The institutional and social intervention in urban public spaces, in order to preserve nature and promote culture, is one of