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 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 ...

, 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 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 * ''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 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 **

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 ...

, principle that the total momentum of a closed system is constant **

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 syste ...

, principle that total angular momentum of a system is constant **

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 alwa ...

, 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 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 * Local ...

, the status of an area of land in terms of conservation or protection *

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 *

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 gover ...

, a power of an organization to constrain the exercise of rights otherwise held by a landowner to achieve certain conservation purposes *

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 ecolo ...

, a community committed to saving large parcels of land from ecological degradation

Other uses

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 po ...

, learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget *

Conservation and restoration of cultural property The conservation and restoration of cultural property focuses on protection and care of cultural property (tangible cultural heritage), including artworks, architecture, archaeology, and museum collections. Conservation activities include prev ...

, 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

Environment and natural resources

Physical laws

Land designated for conservation

Other uses

See also