Conservation vs. Preservation

Conservationnoun

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

Conservationnoun

Wise use of natural resources.

Conservationnoun

(biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources

Conservationnoun

(biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor

Conservationnoun

(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts

Conservationnoun

(physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Conservationnoun

The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

Conservationnoun

an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

Conservationnoun

the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources

Conservationnoun

(physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations

Preservationnoun

The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

Preservationnoun

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation.

Preservationnoun

the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

Preservationnoun

the condition of being (well or ill) preserved

Preservationnoun

a process that saves organic substances from decay

Preservationnoun

an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change