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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
  • Wetland conservation, protecting and preserving areas where water exists at or near the Earth's surface, such as swamps, marshes and bogs.
• 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

• All pages with titles beginning with Conservation
• All pages with titles containing Conservation
• Conservation ministry (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
• Conversation (disambiguation)
• Preservation (disambiguation)
• Sustainable forest management
• Wildlife management, management to conserve wild species and their habitats