Conservation movement facts for kids
The conservation movement is a big effort by people, groups, and governments to protect nature. It's also called nature conservation. This movement works to save natural resources like plants, animals, and their homes (habitats) for the future.
In the past, conservation focused on things like managing fishing, protecting wild animals, saving water and soil, and using forests wisely. Today, the movement is much wider. It still cares about using resources sustainably and protecting wild places. But it also focuses on saving all the different kinds of life on Earth, which is called biodiversity.
Images for kids
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Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions, title page of the first edition (1664)
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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
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F. V. Hayden's map of Yellowstone National Park, 1871
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Roosevelt was a leader in conservation, fighting to end the waste of natural resources.
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A conservation area's sign in the Finnish forest. It says, "A conservation area protected by law".
See also
In Spanish: Conservación ambiental para niños
