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United States 1960 postal stamp advocating water conservation. Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand. Water conservation makes it possible to avoid water scarcity. It covers all the policies, strategies and activities to reach these aims.
International Drinking Water Decade, 1981–90: 1980s International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction: 1990s United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: 2005–2014 Water for Life Decade: 2005–2015 United Nations Decade on Biodiversity: 2011–2020 United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification ...
Environmental and conservation organizations in the United States have been formed to help protect the environment, habitats, flora, and fauna on federally owned land, on private land, within coastal limits, in-state conservation areas, in-state parks and in locally governed municipalities.
The early Conservation movement, which began in the late 19th century, included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil conservation and sustainable forestry.Today it includes sustainable yield of natural resources, preservation of wilderness areas and biodiversity.
Evidence-based conservation provides access to information that will support decision making through an evidence-based framework of "what works" in conservation. [51] The evidence-based approach to conservation is based on evidence-based practice which started in medicine and later spread to nursing, education, psychology and other
Climate change has led to the United States warming by 2.6 °F (1.4 °C) since 1970. [8] The climate of the United States is shifting in ways that are widespread and varied between regions. [9] [10] From 2010 to 2019, the United States experienced its hottest decade on record. [11] Extreme weather events, invasive species, floods and droughts ...
The push for progressive conservation in the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century destroyed many kinship relationships Native tribes had with the nonhuman world. U.S. conservation practices harming Native kinship relations continued into the 1960s. Demand for ocean exhibits was at an all-time high in the United States.
"Conservation" originated in the late 19th century as a movement built around the conservation of natural resources and an attempt to stave off air, water, and land pollution. By the 1970s environmentalism evolved into a much more sophisticated control regime, one that employed the Environmental Protection Agency to slow environmental degradation.