  We provide a general framework which allows one to obtain the dynamics of $N$
noninteracting spatially indistinguishable particles locally coupled to
separated environments. The approach is universal, being valid for both bosons
and fermions and for any type of system-environment interaction. It is then
applied to study the dynamics of two identical qubits under paradigmatic
Markovian noises, such as phase damping, depolarizing and amplitude damping. We
find that spatial indistinguishability of identical qubits is a controllable
intrinsic property of the system which protects quantum entanglement against
detrimental noise.
