Conservation

Conservation may refer to:

• Conservation movement, to protect animals, fungi, plants and their habitats
  • Conservation biology, the science of the protection and management of biodiversity
  • Conservation genetics - "an interdisciplinary science that aims to apply genetic methods to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity."
  • Conservation (ethic), an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection, especially of the natural environment
  • Conservation organization typically an environmental organization
  • Conservationist, a person who advocates for conservation of animals, fungi, plants and their habitats
  • Energy conservation, the reduction of energy consumption
  • Habitat conservation, a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore, habitat areas for wild animals, fungi and plants
  • Water conservation, reducing the use of water to protect the environment
  • Wetland conservation, protecting wetlands to conserve their ecological processes
  • Wildlife conservation, protecting endangered species and their habitat
  • Wildlife management, multidisciplinary practices, including conservation of species and their habitats
  • Conservation authority (Canada)
  • Marine conservation, the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas
  • Soil conservation, management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered
• Conservation-restoration, art conservation, protecting works of art, preservation of cultural resources
  • Photograph conservation
  • Architectural conservation
• Conservation laws, a set of laws in physics
  • Conservation of energy
• Other meanings
  • Conserved sequence - "similar or identical sequences that may occur within nucleic acid sequences, protein sequences, protein structures or polymeric carbohydrates."
  • Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
  • Conserved name (Latin nomen conservandum), a scientific name with specific nomenclatural protection.

See also

• Category:Conservation for topics related to conservation of natural resources
• Conservation easement
• Conservation communities
• Environmentalism
• Historic preservation
• List of conservation topics
• Sustainability
• Land ethic, a perspective on environmental ethics first proposed by Aldo Leopold