conservation movements
Nature protection campaigns
Conservation movements are organized efforts to protect natural resources, wildlife, and ecosystems from degradation or destruction.
These movements emerged in the late 19th century as industrialization threatened wilderness areas, and have since expanded to address issues from endangered species to climate change.
The conservation movement helped establish national parks across the country.
Participants range from grassroots activists to international organizations, employing tactics from lobbying to direct action.
- sustainable forestryLong-term timber management practice
- leave no traceRemove all signs of presence
- habitat restorationReviving degraded natural environments
- wildlife corridorsLand linking separated habitats
- endangered speciesOrganisms facing extinction risk
old growth forests · marine sanctuaries · tree huggers · grassroots activism · Sierra Club · Greenpeace · Rachel Carson · Earth Day · national parks · land trusts · renewable energy systems · carbon sequestration · rewilding
- natural historynatural history, natural history museum, naturalist, naturalists, natural philosophers
- Western FrontierOld West, cowboy culture, ghost towns, frontier towns, pioneer trails
conservation movementsresource extraction
Obtaining substances from nature
strip mining · deforestation · clear-cutting · overfishing · fossil fuel industry
conservation movementsindustrialization
Transition to factory-based economy
urban sprawl · land development · real estate development · commercial development · manifest destiny
conservation movementsshort-termism
Focus on immediate results
immediate gratification · planned obsolescence · throwaway culture · consumerism · presentism
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