Conservation movement facts for kids
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
The early conservation movement included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil 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.
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
