Conservation movement
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"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."--Rachel Carson cited in CBS Reports: The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson (1963) |
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The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
The early conservation movement included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil conservation, and sustainable forestry. The contemporary conservation movement has broadened from the early movement's emphasis on use of sustainable yield of natural resources and preservation of wilderness areas to include preservation of biodiversity. Some say the conservation movement is part of the broader and more far-reaching environmental movement, while others argue that they differ both in ideology and practice. Chiefly in the United States, conservation is seen as differing from environmentalism in that it aims to preserve natural resources expressly for their continued sustainable use by humans.
See also
- Australian Grains Genebank
- Conservation biology
- Conservation ethic
- Ecology
- Ecology movement
- Energy conservation
- Environmental history
- Environmental movement
- Environmental protection
- Environmentalism
- Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920
- Factor 10
- Forest protection
- Habitat conservation
- List of environmental organizations
- List of environment topics
- Marine conservation
- Natural environment
- Natural landscape
- Soil conservation
- Sustainability
- U.S. National Park Service
- Water conservation
- Wetland conservation
- Wildlife conservation
- Wildlife management