Protecting Nature by Making Conservation Management Plans

Environmental sustainability is the ability to maintain rates of renewable resource harvest, pollution creation, and non-renewable resource depletion that can be continued indefinitely.

Economic sustainability is the ability to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely.

Social sustainability is the ability of a social system, such as a country, to function at a defined level of social well being indefinitely.

A more complete definition of sustainability is thus environmental, economic, and social sustainability. This forms the goal of The Three Pillars of Sustainability.

Nature conservation comes in many different forms.   For instance, there are groups that help clean up the oceans, replant trees to build up the forests, stop harmful deforestation and land development, and educate children and adults about how to take care of the environment.

Environmental conservation includes taking care of the air and the earth's atmosphere, animal and plant life, humans and cultural development, and the planet's water. It shares a lot of interests with human rights, because keeping underprivileged populations healthy and thriving has a lot to do with preserving the earth. Conservation can be as little as planting a tree and maintaining it or as big as saving a species of whales. The main idea is that any progress is good progress, no matter the size.