Conservation
Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws.
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Conservation may also refer to:
Environment and natural resources
- Nature conservation, the protection and management of the environment and natural resources
- Conservation (magazine), published by the Society for Conservation Biology from 2000-2014
- Conservation Biology (journal), scientific journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
- 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
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
Other uses
- Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
- Conservation (cultural heritage), the conservation or restoration of cultural heritage
- Conservation science (cultural heritage), the interdisciplinary study of conservation of cultural works
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See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Conservation
- All pages with titles containing Conservation
- 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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