Editing Nature conservation (section)

== Terminology ==
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The term "conservation" was coined by [[Gifford Pinchot]] in 1907. He told his close friend United States President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] who used it for a national conference of governors in 1908.<ref>Carolyn Merchant, ed. ''Major problems in American environmental history: documents and essays'' (1993) pp. 340, 356–357.</ref>

In common usage, the term refers to the activity of systematically protecting natural resources such as forests, including biological diversity. [[Carl F. Jordan]] defines biological conservation as:<ref>{{cite book|last=Jordan|first=Carl|title=Replacing Quantity With Quality As a Goal for Global Management|publisher=Wiley|date=1995|isbn=0-471-59515-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conservationrepl00jord}}</ref>

{{quote|a philosophy of managing the environment in a manner that does not despoil, exhaust or extinguish.}}

While this usage is not new, the idea of biological conservation has been applied to the principles of ecology, [[biogeography]], [[anthropology]], economy, and sociology to maintain [[biodiversity]].

The term "conservation" itself may cover the concepts such as [[cultural diversity]], [[genetic diversity]], and the concept of movements [[Environmental protection|environmental conservation]], [[seedbank]] curation (preservation of seeds), and [[gene bank]] coordination (preservation of animals' genetic material). These are often summarized as the priority to respect diversity.

Much recent movement in conservation can be considered a resistance to [[commercialism]] and [[globalization]]. [[Slow Food]] is a consequence of rejecting these as moral priorities, and embracing a [[voluntary simplicity|slower and more locally focused lifestyle]].

[[Sustainable living]] is a lifestyle that people are beginning to adopt, promoting to make decisions that would help protect [[biodiversity]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cities |first=Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Group on Sustainable |date=2013 |title=Resiliency and Environmental Sustainability |journal=The Urban Opportunity |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep15871.7 |pages=28–34}}</ref> The small lifestyle changes that promote [[sustainability]] will eventually accumulate into the proliferation of biological diversity. Regulating the ecolabeling of products from fisheries, controlling for [[Sustainable food system|sustainable food production]], or keeping the lights off during the day are some examples of sustainable living.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kaiser |first1=Michel J. |last2=Edwards-Jones |first2=Gareth |date=2006 |title=The Role of Ecolabeling in Fisheries Management and Conservation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3591347 |journal=Conservation Biology |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=392–398 |doi=10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00319.x |jstor=3591347 |pmid=16903100 |bibcode=2006ConBi..20..392K |hdl=1912/843 |s2cid=30842161 |issn=0888-8892|hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bale |first1=J.S |last2=van Lenteren |first2=J.C |last3=Bigler |first3=F |date=6 September 2007 |title=Biological control and sustainable food production |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2182 |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=363 |issue=1492 |pages=761–776 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2007.2182 |pmid=17827110 |pmc=2610108 |issn=0962-8436}}</ref> However, sustainable living is not a simple and uncomplicated approach. A 1987 Brundtland Report expounds on the notion of sustainability as a process of change that looks different for everyone: "It is not a fixed state of harmony, but rather a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as present needs. We do not pretend that the process is easy or straightforward."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Development. |first=World Commission on Environment and |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/732496026 |title=Our common future |date=1991 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-282080-X |oclc=732496026}}</ref> Simply put, sustainable living does make a difference by compiling many individual actions that encourage the protection of [[biological diversity]].