Conserving Canada's Wildlife In The Twentieth Century

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

* Nature conservation, the protection and management of the environment and natural resources
* Conservation biology, the science of protection and management of biodiversity
* Conservation movement, political, environmental, or social movement that seeks to protect natural resources, including biodiversity and habitat
* Conservation organization, an organization dedicated to protection and management of the environment or natural resources
* Wildlife conservation, the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to prevent species from going extinct
* ''Conservation'' (magazine), published by the Society for Conservation Biology from 2000 to 2014
** ''Conservation Biology'' (journal), scientific journal of the Society for Conservation Biology

Physical laws

* Conservation law, principle that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time
** Conservation of energy, principle that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant over time
** Conservation of mass, principle that the mass of any closed system must remain constant over time
** Conservation of linear momentum, principle that the total momentum of a closed system is constant
** Conservation of angular momentum, principle that total angular momentum of a system is constant
** Charge conservation, principle that the total electric charge in an isolated system never changes

Land designated for conservation

* Conservation area (United Kingdom), an area considered worthy of preservation because of its architectural or historic interest
* Conservation designation, the status of an area of land in terms of conservation or protection
* Conservation district, government entities that help manage and protect land and water resources in U.S. states and insular areas
* Conservation easement, a power of an organization to constrain the exercise of rights otherwise held by a landowner to achieve certain conservation purposes
* Conservation community, a community committed to saving large parcels of land from ecological degradation

Other uses

* Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
* Conservation and restoration of cultural property, the conservation or restoration of cultural heritage
** Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property
** Conservation science (cultural property), the interdisciplinary study of conservation of cultural works

See also

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* Conservation ministry (disambiguation)
* Conversation (disambiguation)
* Conservation science (disambiguation)
* Conservatism (disambiguation)
* Conserve (disambiguation)
* Conserved quantity, in mathematics, a function of dependent variables that remains constant
* Conserved sequence, similar or identical sequences of nucleic acids, proteins, protein structures, or polymeric carbohydrates
* Preservation (disambiguation)
* Wildlife management, management to conserve wild species and their habitats

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