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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Wetland conservation
Wetland conservation is aimed at protecting and preserving areas where water exists at or near the Earth's surface, such as swamps, marshes and bogs. Wetlands cover at least six per cent of the Earth and have become a focal issue for conservation ...
, protecting and preserving areas where water exists at or near the Earth's surface, such as swamps, marshes and bogs.
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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
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the f ...
, 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
Wildlife conservation refers to the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural ecosystems. Major threats to wildlife include habita ...
, 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
In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of mass or principle of mass conservation states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as the system's mass can ...
, principle that the mass of any closed system must remain constant over time
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Conservation of linear momentum
In Newtonian mechanics, momentum (more specifically linear momentum or translational momentum) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object. It is a vector quantity, possessing a magnitude and a direction. If is an object's mass and ...
, principle that the total momentum of a closed system is constant
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Conservation of angular momentum
In physics, angular momentum (rarely, moment of momentum or rotational momentum) is the rotational analog of linear momentum. It is an important physical quantity because it is a conserved quantity—the total angular momentum of a closed system ...
, principle that total angular momentum of a system is constant
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Charge conservation
In physics, charge conservation is the principle that the total electric charge in an isolated system never changes. The net quantity of electric charge, the amount of positive charge minus the amount of negative charge in the universe, is alway ...
, 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
A conservation designation is a name and/or acronym which explains the status of an area of land in terms of conservation or protection.
Examples United Kingdom
*Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
* Environmentally sensitive area
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, the status of an area of land in terms of conservation or protection
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Conservation district
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
, government entities that help manage and protect land and water resources in U.S. states and insular areas
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Conservation easement
In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified private land conservation organization (often called a "land trust") or gove ...
, 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 conservation community (or conservation development) is a real estate and conservation hybrid model of land development, consisting of both protected areas and human settlements, with the primary goal of saving large parcels of land from ecologi ...
, a community committed to saving large parcels of land from ecological degradation
Other uses
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Conservation (psychology)
Conservation refers to a logical thinking ability that allows a person to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size, according to the psychologist Jean Piaget. His theory pos ...
, learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
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Conservation and restoration of cultural property
The conservation and restoration of cultural property focuses on protection and care of cultural property, cultural property (tangible cultural heritage), including Collection (artwork), artworks, Architectural conservation, architecture, Archae ...
, the conservation or restoration of cultural heritage
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Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property
Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property describes the process through which the material, historical, and design integrity of any immovable cultural property are prolonged through carefully planned interventions. The indivi ...
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Conservation science (cultural property) With respect to cultural property, conservation science is the interdisciplinary study of the conservation of art, architecture, technical art history and other cultural works through the use of scientific inquiry. General areas of research include ...
, the interdisciplinary study of conservation of cultural works
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Conservation ministry (disambiguation) Conservation ministry may refer to:
* Minister of Conservation (Manitoba), a provincial cabinet minister
* Minister of Conservation (New Zealand), a government minister
* Minister for the Environment (Western Australia), formerly Minister for Conse ...
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Conversation (disambiguation)
Conversation is communication among people.
Conversation(s) or The Conversation may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Conversation'' (film), a 1974 psychological thriller film
* ''Conversations'', a 1995 film starring Meta Golding
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Conservation science (disambiguation) Conservation science may refer to:
*Conservation science (cultural heritage), the interdisciplinary study of care and protection of art, architecture, and other cultural works
*Conservation biology, interdisciplinary study of protection of biodiver ...
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Conservatism (disambiguation)
Conservatism is a set of political philosophies that favour tradition.
Conservatism or conservative may also refer to:
* Linguistic conservatism, a language form that has changed relatively little over its history
* Conservatism (belief revision) ...
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Conserve (disambiguation)
Conserve may refer to:
* Conserve (condiment), a preserve made from a mixture of fruits or vegetables
* Conserve (NGO), an Indian environmental organization
* Conserve (publisher), a Dutch publisher
* Conserved sequence, a protein or nucleic acid ...
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Conserved quantity
In mathematics, a conserved quantity of a dynamical system is a function of the dependent variables, the value of which remains constant along each trajectory of the system.
Not all systems have conserved quantities, and conserved quantities are ...
, in mathematics, a function of dependent variables that remains constant
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Conserved sequence
In evolutionary biology, conserved sequences are identical or similar sequences in nucleic acids ( DNA and RNA) or proteins across species ( orthologous sequences), or within a genome ( paralogous sequences), or between donor and receptor taxa ...
, 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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Sustainable forest management
Sustainable forest management (SFM) is the management of forests according to the principles of sustainable development. Sustainable forest management has to keep the balance between three main pillars: ecological, economic and socio-cultural. ...
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Wildlife management
Wildlife management is the management process influencing interactions among and between wildlife, its habitats and people to achieve predefined impacts. It attempts to balance the needs of wildlife with the needs of people using the best availabl ...
, management to conserve wild species and their habitats
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