Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws.
Conservation may also refer to:
Environment and natural resources
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Nature conservation
Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values unde ...
, the protection and management of the environment and natural resources
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Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an int ...
, the science of protection and management of biodiversity
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Conservation movement, political, environmental, or social movement that seeks to protect natural resources, including biodiversity and habitat
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Conservation organization
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements
that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
In this sense the environment ...
, an organization dedicated to protection and management of the environment or natural resources
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Wildlife conservation, the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to prevent species from going extinct
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''Conservation'' (magazine), published by the Society for Conservation Biology from 2000 to 2014
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''Conservation Biology'' (journal), scientific journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Physical laws
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Conservation law
In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time. Exact conservation laws include conservation of energy, conservation of linear momentum, c ...
, principle that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time
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Conservation of energy
In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be ''conserved'' over time. This law, first proposed and tested by Émilie du Châtelet, means th ...
, principle that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant over time
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Conservation of mass, principle that the mass of any closed system must remain constant over time
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Conservation of linear momentum, principle that the total momentum of a closed system is constant
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Conservation of angular momentum, principle that total angular momentum of a system is constant
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Charge conservation, principle that the total electric charge in an isolated system never changes
Land designated for conservation
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Conservation area (United Kingdom), an area considered worthy of preservation because of its architectural or historic interest
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Conservation designation, the status of an area of land in terms of conservation or protection
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Conservation district, government entities that help manage and protect land and water resources in U.S. states and insular areas
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Conservation easement, a power of an organization to constrain the exercise of rights otherwise held by a landowner to achieve certain conservation purposes
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Conservation community, a community committed to saving large parcels of land from ecological degradation
Other uses
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Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
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Conservation and restoration of cultural property, the conservation or restoration of cultural heritage
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Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property
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Conservation science (cultural property), the interdisciplinary study of conservation of cultural works
See also
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Conservation ministry (disambiguation)
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Conversation (disambiguation)
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Conservation science (disambiguation)
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Conservatism (disambiguation)
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Conserve (disambiguation)
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Conserved quantity, in mathematics, a function of dependent variables that remains constant
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Conserved sequence, similar or identical sequences of nucleic acids, proteins, protein structures, or polymeric carbohydrates
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Preservation (disambiguation)
Preservation may refer to:
Heritage and conservation
* Preservation (library and archival science), activities aimed at prolonging the life of a record while making as few changes as possible
* ''Preservation'' (magazine), published by the Nat ...
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Wildlife management, management to conserve wild species and their habitats
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