List of conservation topics

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This is a list of conservation topics. It is a list of articles relating to conservation of the natural environment.

A

• Abiotic stress - Aerial-seeding - Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora

B

• Biodegradation - Biodiversity - Biodiversity Action Plan - Biodiversity Outcomes Framework - Biodiversity hotspot - Biogenic - Biogeography - Bioinformatics - Biological integrity - Biomaterial - Biome - Biomimicry - Biopiracy - Bioregional democracy - Biosafety - Biosalinity - Biosecurity - Biosphere - Biosphere reserve - Biostatistics - Biotechnology - Bioterrorism - Bird conservation - Blue-listed - Bottom trawling

C

• Captive breeding - Charismatic megafauna - CITES - Community-based conservation - Conservation Authority - Conservation Commons - Conservation Dependent - Conservation agriculture - Conservation and Neocolonialism - Conservation area - Conservation biology - Conservation ecology - Conservation ethic - Conservation designation - Conservation grazing - Conservation headland - Conservation management system - Conservation movement - Conservation park - Conservation status - Convention on Biological Diversity - COTES - Critically endangered species - Cross-fostering

D

• Data Deficient - Debt-for-Nature Swap - Deforestation

E

• Ecoregion - Ecosystem restoration - Ecosystem services - Ecological crisis - Ecological island - Ecological niche - Ecological selection - Ecozone - Edge effect - Endangered species - Evolutionarily Significant Unit - Extinction - Extinction event - Ex-situ conservation - Extinct birds - Extinct in the Wild - Extinction threshold

F

• Flagship species - Forest fragmentation

G

• Gaia theory (science) - Gaia philosophy - Gaian - GPS Wildlife Tracking - GRANK - Gap analysis (conservation) - Genetic pollution - Genetic erosion - Global strategy for plant conservation - Greenprinting

H

• Habitat (ecology) - Habitat fragmentation - Habitat conservation - Habitat destruction - Habitat fragmentation - Habitats Directive

I

• Illegal logging - In-situ conservation - Indianapolis Prize - The Institute for Bird Populations - Integrated Conservation and Development Project - Invader potential - Island restoration

L

• Logging - Landscape scale conservation - Latent extinction risk - Lower Risk

M

• Marine Protected Area - Marine conservation - Marine reserve - Marxan - Millennium Seed Bank Project - Minimal impact code - Mission blue butterfly habitat conservation

N

• National marine conservation area - National park - NATURA 2000 - Nature reserve - Nest box

O

• Old growth forest - Operation Wallacea

P

• Penguin sweater - Pollinator decline - Primate extinction - Protected area -

R

• Rare species - Recovery Plan - Red-listed - Regional Forest Agreement - Regional Red List - Reforestation - Reintroduction - Resource management - Restoration ecology - Roadless area conservation

S

• Small population size - Soil salination - Soils retrogression and degradation - Scaling pattern of occupancy - Seedbank - Shifting baseline syndrome - Site based conservation - Site of Nature Conservation Interest - Special Area of Conservation - Special Protection Area - Soil conservation - Source-sink dynamics - Species Survival Plan - Species of Concern - Species translocation - Stewardship Cessation - Subnational rank - Sustainable yield

T

• Terraforming - Terrestrial ecoregion - Threatened species - Translocation (Wildlife conservation)

V

• Variable retention - Vulnerability and susceptibility in conservation biology - Vulnerable species

W

• Waterway restoration - Weed Science - Wildlife corridor - Wildlife reserve - Woodland management - Water Conservation Order - Waterbar - Wildlife Conservation Society - Wildlife trade - World Commission on Protected Areas - World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity as an Aid to their Survival - World Network of Biosphere Reserves

Z

• Zoological garden

Conventions, protocols, panels and summits

• Biosafety protocol -- Montreal 2000
• Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially As Waterfowl Habitat - Ramsar Convention - Ramsar Site
• Earth Summit 2002 (World summit on Sustainable Development), Johannesburg 2002
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
• International Seabed Authority
• International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
• International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983
• World Commission on Protected Areas - WCPA
• World Wilderness Congress

United Nations bodies

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

See also

• List of conservation issues
• List of invasive species
• List of endangered species
• List of environmental issues
• List of environment topics
• List of zoos
• Environmental agreements
• Environmentalism

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