Conservation may refer to:

• Conservation movement, a movement seeking to protect plants, animals and their habitats
• Conservation ethic, an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection
• Energy conservation, the reduction of non-renewable energy consumption
• Habitat conservation
• Water conservation
• Wildlife management, multidisciplinary practices, including conservation of species and their habitats
• Conservation authority
• Marine conservation, the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas
• Soil conservation

• Art conservation, the profession devoted to the preservation of cultural property
• Photograph conservation
• Architectural conservation, immovable object conservation

• Conservation biology, the science of the protection and management of biodiversity
• Conservation (botany), a procedure for nomenclature
• Conservation (genetics), related to homologous proteins amongst various phyla
• Conservation laws, a set of laws in physics
• Conservation (psychology), learning development of logical thinking, according to Jean Piaget
• Food conservation

[ See also

• Category:Conservation for topics relation to conservation of natural resources
• Environmentalism
• List of conservation topics
• Agricultural conservation easement