1. The preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources
   "The wildlife conservation efforts helped bring the endangered species back from the brink of extinction"
    
2. (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
   "The law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed"
    
3. An occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss, injury or other change
   "The conservation of the wetlands helped protect endangered species";
   - preservation

Derived forms: conservations

Type of: advance, betterment, improvement, preservation, principle, saving

Encyclopedia: Conservation