The phrase "arguments for protecting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing reasons or justifications for safeguarding something, such as the environment, rights, or cultural heritage.
Example: "There are compelling arguments for protecting endangered species to maintain biodiversity and ecological balance."
Alternatives: "reasons for safeguarding" or "justifications for preserving".
Philosophical assumptions underlying practices such as open source software development, file sharing, common carriage, and community wireless networks, contrasted with arguments for protecting private and commercial interests such as software patents, copy protection, copyright infringement lawsuits, and regulatory barriers.
And in this particular case, individuals who believe passionately that we should be conserving nature for its own intrinsic value had, I believe, legitimate concerns that focusing on the value of nature to people both cheapened the moral and ethical arguments for protecting biodiversity, but also would open the gates to lack of protection if something was not obviously useful to people.
This provides the background for one of the primary arguments for protecting saltmarshes.
How convincing are aesthetic or ethical arguments for protecting the world's wildernesses?
Economic arguments for protecting the ugly are as strong as those for protecting some groups currently covered by legislation.
The reality is that conservative thinking provides a deep well of arguments for protecting the environment and tackling climate change.
Yet there is a solid economic argument for protecting your fellow citizens' access to health care that does not rely on arguments from empathy, charity or the like.
They appear to provide the ultimate argument for protecting the natural environment: to do otherwise would detract from people's quality of life.
Several climate and forestry experts familiar with the work said the study provided an important new argument for protecting old-growth woods.
The information commissioner acknowledged that there were "strong public interest arguments in favour of disclosure" but he believed there was a stronger argument for protecting the confidentiality of the material.
