Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a 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 conservation biology and preservation of biodiversity.
Conservation Movement Media
Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions, title page of the first edition (1664)
Schlich, in the middle of the seated row, with students from the forestry school at Oxford, on a visit to the forests of Saxony in the year 1892
F. V. Hayden's map of Yellowstone National Park, 1871
Theodore Roosevelt with trophy killing
Figure 1. Costa Rica divided into different areas of conservation
A conservation area's sign in the Finnish forest. It says, "A conservation area protected by law".
Other websites
- A history of conservation in New Zealand Archived 2008-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- For Future Generations, a Canadian documentary on conservation and national parks
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