• Conservation movement, to protect plants, animals and their habitats
  • Conservation biology, the science of the protection and management of biodiversity
  • Conservation genetics - "an interdisciplinary science that aims to apply genetic methods to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity."
  • Conservation (ethic), an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection, especially of the natural environment
  • Conservationist, a person who advocates for conservation of plants, animals and their habitats
  • Energy conservation, the reduction of non-renewable energy consumption
  • Habitat conservation, a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore, habitat areas for wild plants and animals
  • Water conservation, reducing the use of water to protect the environment
  • Wetland conservation, protecting wetlands to conserve their ecological processes
  • Wildlife management, multidisciplinary practices, including conservation of species and their habitats
  • Conservation authority (Canada)
  • Marine conservation, the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas
  • Soil conservation, management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered
• Conservation-restoration, the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural resources
  • Art conservation, protecting works of art
  • Photograph conservation
  • Architectural conservation
• Conservation laws, a set of laws in physics
  • Conservation of energy
• Other meanings
  • Conserved sequence - "similar drugs or identical sequences that may occur within nucleic acid sequences, protein sequences, 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.

See also

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

Noun

1. conservation

• conversation

Conservation

Contents

• 1 Sourced
• 2 Misattributed
• 3 See also
• 4 External links

Sourced

• Agriculture represents the single most profound ecological change in the entire 3.5 billion-year history of life.
  • Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001

• Indeed, to develop agriculture is essentially to declare war on ecosystems — converting land to produce one or two food crops, with all other native plant species all now classified as unwanted 'weeds' — and all but a few domesticated species of animals now considered as pests.
  • Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001

• There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past.
  • Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001

• This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction.
  • - Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001

• The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. If we save a priceless woodland today, it is threatened from another quarter tomorrow.
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998), quoted in Facing Florida's Environmental Future, April 1990.

• The conservationist's most Important task, if we are to save the earth, is to educate.
  • Peter Scott, founder chairman of the World Wildlife Federation, quoted in the Sunday Telegraph, November 6, 1986.

• Civilization began around wetlands; today's civilization has every reason to leave them wet and wild.
  • Edward Maltby, Waterlogged Wealth, 1986.

• By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.
  • Stuart L. Pimm, "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable", circa 2004.

• More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women’s lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world’s finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children’s children.
  • Louise Burfitt-Dons, Speech on Hot Women Campaign given at UK Aware circa 2008.

Misattributed

• I, as Governor, declare the Endangered Species Act is no longer in force in Wyoming. […] I, as Governor, declare, effective immediately, any animal classified as a "predator" under Wyoming law has no protection. This specifically applies to the wolf. Wyoming statute also says that dogs harassing wildlife shall be shot. Wyoming now considers the wolf as a federal dog.
  • supposedly from Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal
  • actually an April Fool's joke by Maury Jones, an Afton, Wyoming conservationist, published on April 1, 2005 [1]
  • erroneously quoted as if factual by the Los Angeles Times on December 27, 2005 [2]

See also

• Environment

External links