How to say "habitat" in Japanese

• 原産げんさんJLPT N2approx.Common
  no-adjectiveGlossed 'habitat', but its core sense is place of origin — where a plant or animal originally comes from, not where it now lives. Seldom the word you want for 'habitat' itself.
• 生息地せいそくちCommon
  nounThe word for habitat in the ecological sense: the place where an animal or other organism lives — its home, as with a tiger. Your default choice for wildlife and nature contexts.
  北極ほっきょく熊くまは極地きょくちの氷原ひょうげんに住すんでいるのだが、生息地せいそくちを失うしない、絶滅ぜつめつするであろう。↗

  The polar bear, which lives on the polar ice-cap, will lose its home and die out.
• 産地さんちJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounCovers the locality where a plant or animal is found; closer to 'locality' than to the living-environment sense of habitat. Choose it when the emphasis is on the place itself.

For the place where an animal or plant lives, 生息地 is the word; 産地 points to the locality where a plant or animal is found, while 原産 really means place of origin, not habitat.

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• 原産げんさんplace of origin
• 生息地せいそくちhabitat
• ハビタットhabitat
• ハビタットHABITAT (1996 UN conference on Human Settlements)
• 生息環境せいそくかんきょうhabitat
• 住環境じゅうかんきょうliving environment
• 住処すみかdwelling
• 行動範囲こうどうはんいfield of activities
• 産地さんちhome (of a plant or animal)
• 原生地げんせいちhabitat