Conservation

Conservation is the ethical use and protection of valuable resources, such as trees, minerals, wildlife, water and others. It focuses on maintaining the natural world in order to protect the sources of resources. Conservation may refer to:

• Conservation (ethic) of biodiversity, environment, and natural resources, including protection and management
• Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage, protection and restoration of cultural heritage, including works of art and architecture, as well as archaeological and historical artifacts
• Conservation law, measurable property of isolated physical system that does not change as the system evolves, including conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries

Subtopics

Conservation of biodiversity, environment, and natural resources

• Conservation biology, the science of protection and management of biodiversity
• Conservation (ethic), an ethic of use, protection, and management of the environment and natural resources
• Conservation finance, the practice of raising and managing capital to support land, water, and resource conservation
• Conservation genetics, an interdisciplinary science that applies genetic methods to conservation and restoration 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
• Conservationist (Conservation movement), a person who advocates for conservation of the environment and natural resources
• Conservation of natural resources:

• Energy conservation, management of energy resources
• Habitat conservation, land management practices to protect, manage, and restore habitat
• Marine conservation, protection and management of ocean and sea ecosystems
• Soil conservation, management of soils to prevent erosion, depletion, and contamination
• Water conservation, management of fresh water as a sustainable resource
• Wetland conservation, management to protect and restore wetlands
• Wildlife conservation, protection of endangered species and their habitat

• Wildlife management, management to conserve wild species and their habitats

Conservation of cultural heritage

• Architectural conservation
• Book and paper conservation
• Conservation science (cultural heritage)
• Frame conservation
• Object conservation (archaeological, ethnographic, and sculptural)
• Photograph conservation
• Preventive conservation
• Stained glass conservation

Physical laws of conservation

• Conservation of energy
• Conservation of mass
• Conservation of mass-energy
• Conservation of linear momentum
• Conservation of angular momentum
• Charge conservation
• Conservation of color charge
• Conservation of weak isospin
• Conservation of probability (Probability current)
• CPT symmetry (combining charge, parity and time conjugation)
• Lorentz symmetry

See also

Characteristics or traits subject to conservation

• Conserved quantity, in mathematics, a function of dependent variables that remains constant
• Conserved trait, in evolution, a phenotypic expression that is similar or identical through time as the result of natural selection
• Conserved sequence, similar or identical sequences of nucleic acids, proteins, 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

Economics and Law - Conservation Law - Conservation Property Rights

• Conservation economics (Environmental economics), economics of conservation of the environment and natural resources
• Conservation law (Environmental law), law concerning conservation of the environment and resources; see also conservation property rights

Land designated for conservation

• Conservation Area (United Kingdom)
• Conservation designation
• Conservation district
• Conservation easement

Organizations

• Conjour - Conservation Magazine
• Conservation authority (Canada)
• Conservation International
• Conservation Law Foundation
• New Zealand Conservation Authority

Related topics

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

References