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1. Conservation: This article does not receive scheduled updates. If you would like to help our coverage grow, consider donating to Ballotpedia. [100%] 2024-01-09 [Environmental schools of thought] [Environmental policy terms]...
2. Conservation: Conservation refers to the preservation, restoration or repair of the natural environment, wildlife, or archaeological, historical, and cultural sites and artifacts. On the environment see Conservation and environmentalism. [100%] 2023-02-05 [Conservation] [Environmentalism]...
3. Conservation grazing: Conservation grazing or targeted grazing is the use of semi-feral or domesticated grazing livestock to maintain and increase the biodiversity of natural or semi-natural grasslands, heathlands, wood pasture, wetlands and many other habitats. Conservation grazing is generally less ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-02 [Habitats] [Habitat management equipment and methods]...
4. Conservation Commons: The Conservation Commons is the expression of a cooperative effort of non-governmental organizations, international and multi-lateral organizations, governments, academia, and the private sector, to improve open access to and unrestricted use of, data, information and knowledge related to ... (Organization) [70%] 2023-03-12 [Conservation organizations]
5. Conservation genetics: Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary subfield of population genetics that aims to understand the dynamics of genes in a population for the purpose of natural resource management and extinction prevention. Researchers involved in conservation genetics come from a variety of ... (Biology) [70%] 2023-12-03 [Conservation biology] [Applied genetics]...
6. Conservation banking: Conservation banking is an environmental market-based method designed to offset adverse effects, generally, to species of concern, are threatened, or endangered and protected under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) through the creation of conservation banks. Conservation banking ... (Finance) [70%] 2022-10-16 [Banking]
7. Conservation biology: Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary ... (Biology) [70%] 2023-02-14 [Conservation biology] [Landscape ecology]...
8. 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 land conservation organization called a "land trust", or a governmental (municipal, county, state or federal) entity to ... (Engineering) [70%] 2023-12-07 [Urban planning]
9. Conservation Geoportal: The Conservation Geoportal was an online geoportal, intended to provide a comprehensive listing of geographic information systems (GIS) datasets and web map service relevant to biodiversity conservation. It is currently defunct. (Earth) [70%] 2023-03-12 [Geographic information systems]
10. Conservation Biology: One way of conceptualizing the structure of a science is that at any time it contains ontologies, theories, and values (Kuhn 1962; Lakatos 1976;. (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-03-03
11. 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 posits that ... (Psychology) [70%] 2023-11-19 [Cognitive psychology]
12. Global Conservation: Global Conservation is a nonprofit organization that funds 'No Kill, No Cut' protection for endangered national parks and world heritage sites around the world. Global Conservation has developed a Global Park Defense system including surveillance, ranger patrols and community involvement. (Organization) [70%] 2023-10-08 [International environmental organizations]
13. Conservation biology: Conservation biology is the study and management of ecosystems. Its main purposes are the maintenance of biodiversity and the prevention of mass extinctions. [70%] 2024-01-12
14. Conservation psychology: Conservation psychology is the scientific study of the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with a particular focus on how to encourage conservation of the natural world. Rather than a specialty area within psychology itself, it is ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-10-27 [Ecology] [Environmental social science]...
15. Conservation International: Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. CI's work focuses on science, policy and partnership with businesses, governments and communities. (Nonprofit environmental organization) [70%] 2023-04-30 [International environmental organizations] [Forest conservation organizations]...
16. Operation Conservation: Operation Conservation was an attempt by the British Army to ambush a large Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit along the Dorsey Enclosure, between Cullyhanna and Silverbridge, in south County Armagh. The action took place on 6 May 1990 but ... (British Army gun battle with the IRA in 1990) [70%] 2023-11-05 [1990 in military history] [1990 in Northern Ireland]...
17. Conservation officer: A conservation officer is a law enforcement officer who protects wildlife and the environment. A conservation officer may also be referred to as an environmental technician or technologist, game warden, forest ranger, forest watcher, forest guard, forester, gamekeeper, investigator, wilderness ... (Biology) [70%] 2023-12-19 [Wildlife conservation]
18. Conservation agriculture: Conservation agriculture (CA) can be defined by a statement given by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as "Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a farming system that can prevent losses of arable land while regenerating degraded lands.It ... (Farming system to preserve and regenerate land capacity) [70%] 2023-12-27 [Agriculture by type] [Environmental conservation]...
19. Conservation biology: Natural resource conservation and biodiversity conservation are two concepts that are studied together in conservation biology. The goal of conservation biology is to protect species, their habitats, and ecosystems from extinctions at an alarming rate, as well as the erosion ... [70%] 2023-09-28 [Conservation biology] [Landscape ecology]...
20. Conservation technician: A conservation technician is a specialist in conservation methods pertaining to cultural property, and who may work in museums or public or private conservation organizations. A technician may also work in conjunction with other collection staff, such as a registrar ... (Social) [70%] 2023-08-29 [Museology]
21. Biological Conservation: Biological Conservation es una revista científica revisada por pares dedicada a la biología de conservación. La revista fue establecida en 1968, y publica volúmenes de forma mensual por la editorial Elsevier. [70%] 2023-09-03
22. Conservation behavior: Timberlake & Lucas 1989 Conservation behavior is the interdisciplinary field about how animal behavior can assist in the conservation of biodiversity. It encompasses proximate and ultimate causes of behavior and incorporates disciplines including genetics, physiology, behavioral ecology, and evolution. (Biology) [70%] 2023-11-10 [Ethology]
23. Conservation status: The conservation status of a group of organisms (for instance, a species) indicates whether the group still exists and how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing conservation ... (Biology) [70%] 2023-11-17 [Biology terminology] [Biota by conservation status]...
24. Conservation Halton: Conservation Halton, also known as the Halton Region Conservation Authority, is a conservation authority established under the Conservation Authorities Act of Ontario. It forms a partnership with the Province of Ontario, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the regional municipalities ... (Canadian conservation authority) [70%] 2024-01-19 [Regional Municipality of Halton] [Protected areas of the Regional Municipality of Halton]...
25. Conservation Entrepreneurship: Conservation Entrepreneurship is a conservation skills course of the Tropical Conservation and Development Program at the University of Florida. The central theme of this course is: “How can we apply private sector approaches to promote the goals of Tropical Conservation ... [70%] 2024-01-11 [Conservation_entrepreneurship]
26. Conservation form: Conservation form or Eulerian form refers to an arrangement of an equation or system of equations, usually representing a hyperbolic system, that emphasizes that a property represented is conserved, i.e. a type of continuity equation. [70%] 2023-09-18 [Algebra] [Conservation equations]...
27. Conservation Plan: The Conservation Plan is an important publication written by James Semple Kerr in 1982, and revised many times. It was a landmark in Australian conservation. (Social) [70%] 2022-08-11
28. Conservation International: Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. CI's work focuses on science, policy and partnership with businesses, governments and communities. (Organization) [70%] 2023-12-17 [International environmental organizations]
29. Conservation development: Conservation development, also known as conservation design, is a controlled-growth land use development that adopts the principle for allowing limited sustainable development while protecting the area's natural environmental features in perpetuity, including preserving open space landscape and vista ... [70%] 2023-05-15 [Environmental conservation] [Economy and the environment]...
30. Conservation behavior: Ultimately, it is behavior that determines survival. Timberlake & Lucas 1989 Conservation behavior is the interdisciplinary field about how animal behavior can assist in the conservation of biodiversity. [70%] 2023-11-28 [Ethology]
31. Energy conservation: Energy conservation is the effort to reduce wasteful energy consumption by using fewer energy services. This can be done by using energy more effectively (using less energy for continuous service) or changing one's behavior to use less service (for ... (Reducing energy consumption) [70%] 2023-12-29 [Energy conservation] [Energy efficiency]...
32. Conspicuous conservation: Conspicuous conservation describes consumers who purchase environmentally friendly products in order to signal a higher social status. The term is derived from the term "conspicuous consumption," coined by economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 book The Theory of ... (Social) [70%] 2023-06-22 [Psychology experiments]
33. Soil conservation: Soil conservation is set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, salinization, acidification, or other chemical soil contamination. The principal approaches these strategies take are: other ways ... [70%] 2023-11-11 [Conservation] [Land management]...
34. Tiger conservation: The tiger is an iconic species. Tiger conservation attempts to prevent the animal from becoming extinct and preserving its natural habitat. (Biology) [70%] 2023-11-02 [Wildlife conservation]
35. Cave conservation: Cave conservation is the protection and restoration of caves to prevent or minimise the effects of human activities. Some caves have delicate features that can be disturbed by changes in light levels, humidity, temperature or air flow. (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-26 [Caves]
36. Water conservation: Water conservation includes all the policies, strategies and activities to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, to protect the hydrosphere, and to meet the current and future human demand (thus avoiding water scarcity). Population, household size and growth ... (Policies for sustainable development of water use) [70%] 2023-12-10 [Water conservation] [Environmental issues with water]...
37. Nature conservation: Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values underlie conservation, which can be guided by biocentrism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism ... (Movement to protect the biosphere) [70%] 2024-01-03 [Nature conservation] [Environmental ethics]...
38. Soil conservation: Soil conservation is the prevention of loss of the top most layer of the soil from erosion or prevention of reduced fertility caused by over usage, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination. Slash-and-burn and other unsustainable methods ... (Preservation of soil nutrients) [70%] 2022-10-19 [Environmental conservation] [Land management]...
39. Widow conservation: Widow conservation was a practice in Protestant Europe in the early modern age, when the widow of a parish vicar (or sometimes her daughter) would marry her husband's successor to the vicarage to ensure her economic support. The practice ... (Social) [70%] 2022-12-15 [Marriage] [Intimate relationships]...