The future of a landscape area is directly related to the sustainability of land use: they must be used in the production of goods and services in such a way that, in the long term, the natural resource base is not destroyed. The way different habitats, types of cover or populations are placed on a landscape affects what is present and what is happening in any particular place in the landscape. An approach to the protected area in terms of conservation is well aligned with the perspective of the patch matrix in landscape ecology. Efforts by conservation planners and land managers to achieve their conservation objectives may miss the target if they focus only on protected areas without taking into account the functional links with the surrounding landscape.