Editing Conservation movement (section)

{{Short description|Social and political advocacy for protecting natural resources}}
{{Distinguish|Conservatism}}
{{For|specific types of conservation|Conservation (disambiguation)}}
{{Redirect|Conservationism|biological conservationism management|Conservation biology}}
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The '''conservation movement''', also known as '''[[nature conservation]]''', is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect [[natural resource]]s, including [[animal]], [[fungus]], and [[plant species]] as well as their habitat for the future. Conservationists are concerned with leaving the environment in a better state than the condition they found it in.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harding|first=Russ|title=Conservationist or Environmentalist?|url=http://www.mackinac.org/9852|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-02|website=[[Mackinac Center for Public Policy]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203181206/http://www.mackinac.org/9852 |archive-date=2008-12-03 }}</ref> [[Evidence-based conservation]] seeks to use high quality scientific evidence to make conservation efforts more effective.

The early conservation movement evolved out of necessity to maintain natural resources such as [[fisheries]], [[wildlife management]], [[water]], [[soil]], as well as [[conservation (ethic)|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 preservation of [[biodiversity]]. Some say the conservation movement is part of the broader and more far-reaching [[environmental movement]], while others argue that they differ both in ideology and practice. Conservation is seen as differing from [[environmentalism]] and it is generally a conservative school of thought which aims to preserve natural resources expressly for their continued [[sustainable]] use by humans.<ref>{{cite book
| last      = Gifford
| first     = John C.
| title     = Living by the Land
| publisher = Glade House
| year      = 1945
| location  = Coral Gables, Florida
| pages     = 8
| asin      = B0006EUXGQ }}</ref>