Talk:List of conservation topics

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Can we get a clear statement of how this relates to list of ecology topics (science) and list of environment topics (health and related policy) and list of sustainable agriculture topics (how to grow food on land without killing it)? The word conservation is a good conservative one (;-)) so this list should remain, but we need everything on all these lists, and on list of Green party issues, list of ethics topics, list of economics topics, and urban economics, sorted through to get a relatively well-factored set of shorter lists.

NPOV where is any discussion of property rights and how lands adjacent to "conserved" areas are being restricted?

[edit] Conservationist versus Environmentalist

I consider conservation to be a subset of environmentalism. Conservation is about saving species whereas environmentalism is about saving the planet. --Alan Liefting 01:08, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I don't think that is a generally recognized distinction, although I think a case could be made for a somewhat less narrow distinction. Conservation is about preservation (not only of species, but of natural resources as well). Environmentalism has more of an ethical, and in some circles almost spiritual, quality to it. It's about changing how humans interact with the environment to (hopefully) result in a stable long-term balance. Thus it is not uncommon for some on the political right to dismiss environmentalism as liberal activism, while conservation does not have quite the same association. older≠wiser 01:22, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

Conservation is conserving unowned park/wilderness land in the public's interest not the overbearing- overarching- nowarrent or compensation required- steal-your-antique-car-collection; of the enviromental extremists-worship-guya-population-reduction as per Prince Phillip and Jaques Cousteau. Verstan sie?

I agree with the change only because I was thinking for about five minutes why there is a Wikipedia article about conversation topics! Psychomelodic User:Psychomelodic/me 23:52, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Should there be an exception for indexes?

There's a discussion on what the reference requirements for lists like this one. The Transhumanist (talk) 01:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)