noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conservation area (=for preserving nature or old buildings)
▪ a new scheme to create a nature conservation area
conservation area
conservation of the environment
▪ There are many organizations dedicated to conservation of the environment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
effective
▪ It would not cost the Government money, would have the support of fishermen and would be extremely effective in terms of conservation.
▪ We will improve the Governments' decommissioning proposals and appraise, with the industry, effective technical conservation measures.
environmental
▪ Any attempts to persuade farmers of the necessity of environmental conservation must take all these factors into account.
▪ The Endangered Species Act is a safety net that comes into play when other environmental and conservation laws have failed.
▪ Progress both in environmental conservation and technology were officially deemed inadequate, even though 12,000 million roubles were spent on the former.
▪ A government environmental agency investigates many environmental problems such as conservation and pollution.
▪ The uncomfortable alliance of unions and Republicans rallied mainly around job protection and environmental conservation.
important
▪ The point is important, because conservation has recently become the subject of fierce debate.
local
▪ Often they circulate these lists to local conservation and amenity groups, residents' associations and subscribers.
▪ These are just some of the projects carried out by volunteers from local conservation groups in Essex.
national
▪ Examines the problems of conserving medicinal plants, suggests an appropriate national conservation programme and gives advice on international collaboration.
▪ Furthermore they may be different ones from other bilateral or multilateral agencies, making a coordinated national conservation programme rather difficult.
▪ Support this if you can by suitable quotes from local people, local literature or the national conservation bodies. 2.
▪ There are scarcely monitored nor integrated into a national conservation plan.
■ NOUN
area
▪ We also understand that the Black Lion is situated in the conservation area in Llanfair Caereinion.
▪ In particular, it brought the demolition of most historic buildings in conservation areas under control.
▪ It has no less than nine conservation areas designated as being outstanding.
▪ Similarly, any proposed redevelopment or new building must actively enhance or preserve the character or appearance of the conservation area.
▪ The course boasts a large conservation area, and it is my intention to plant some two thousand species of hardwood trees.
▪ Some local authorities have designated very few conservation areas.
▪ Demolition in conservation areas Permission is also needed to demolish an unlisted church in a conservation area.
bird
▪ The profits made by the sale of goods are ploughed back into wild bird conservation.
body
▪ Courses on the latter are open to non-members who are actively involved with other voluntary conservation bodies.
▪ What will happen to the overview of grants to voluntary conservation bodies, particularly national bodies?
▪ We're one of the oldest conservation bodies in the country.
▪ Most conservation bodies have used our data at some time.
▪ Fortunately, more than half the area is now owned by conservation bodies.
▪ Support this if you can by suitable quotes from local people, local literature or the national conservation bodies. 2.
▪ What do you think of conservation bodies?
▪ However, growing environmental awareness also poses challenges for conservation bodies.
effort
▪ Cheap oil has slowed conservation efforts.
▪ However, a shortsighted focus on individual animals could prove disastrous for long-term conservation efforts.
▪ For conservation efforts to succeed, there need to be practical and sustainable programmes that guarantee benefits to the locals.
energy
▪ Predicting fuel consumption and the effects of energy conservation practices has had only limited success.
▪ In 1999, the Water and Light Department did not make any energy conservation grants attributable to the two arenas.
▪ Application of computers in surveying; Energy conservation.
▪ The law of energy conservation is a very important physical principle.
▪ Air pollution and energy conservation aside, private vehicles also come under attack when we consider rural and urban environments.
▪ Instead of energy conservation, they advocate building more dams and nuclear plants.
▪ In the true spirit of energy conservation chose a bicycle for his gift.
▪ The role and importance of attitudes to energy conservation are investigated in relation to comfort requirements.
forest
▪ She's quite happy to look like a forest conservation area.
▪ Mulholland preached soil and forest conservation thirty years before its time.
▪ Putting your tropical forest conservation eggs in the hardwood basket is a high risk strategy.
▪ Western nations, however, have for the most part refused to link forest conservation with debt, claiming that adequate assistance already exists.
group
▪ Neither conservation groups nor the fishermen are satisfied with the deal.
▪ They no doubt that conservation groups would welcome the move.
▪ So now the Commission and other countryside conservation groups, have produced a series of guidelines for the private landowners to follow.
▪ Local amenity societies and conservation groups therefore frequently oppose their construction -; and all too often the houses remain unbuilt.
▪ The Worldwide Fund for Nature and other conservation groups have called for a simplification of this network.
▪ The pleasure and satisfaction of belonging to one of the world's leading whale and dolphin conservation groups.
▪ These are just some of the projects carried out by volunteers from local conservation groups in Essex.
interest
▪ It has also drastically altered landscapes and reduced the nature conservation interest associated with the former small fields and hedges or banks.
▪ Careful management can, however, mitigate such effects so that sporting activities do not have to be incompatible with conservation interests.
issue
▪ Ranging from advice on digging a pond, the importance of the village bobby to controversial political and conservation issues.
▪ This should be altered to apply generally to ensure that nature conservation issues are taken into account in all development decision-making.
▪ Events and activities throughout the week will be aimed at enjoying watersports and highlighting safety and conservation issues.
law
▪ Here the integrand is independent of t so that one conservation law is so that.
▪ The Endangered Species Act is a safety net that comes into play when other environmental and conservation laws have failed.
▪ Look for parity or other conservation laws.
▪ The government is reportedly unwilling to enforce conservation laws in the case of influential royal parties from its Gulf allies.
▪ Though many may wonder about the destructive theory, it requires a moderate amount of mathematical training to develop the conservation laws.
measure
▪ Improved revenue collection will help finance better conservation measures.
▪ At the same time, the effectiveness of soil conservation measures is apparent.
▪ It identified 500,000 hectares of costal habitat which it said were in need of active conservation measures.
▪ The success of any conservation measure is directly dependent on the degree of public opinion mustered to its support.
▪ Now he still has fifty acres of setaside: Male speaker Farmers should be given money to take more conservation measures.
▪ But conservation measures could actually meet the shortfall in supply expected by planners.
▪ We will improve the Governments' decommissioning proposals and appraise, with the industry, effective technical conservation measures.
▪ The current review of the Structure Plan identified the gap in conservation measures.
movement
▪ The modern conservation movement began with the schemes to save ancient temples threatened by the Aswan dam.
▪ Because of the conservation movement, such catastrophes have become impossible to ignore.
▪ The conservation movement means that they have no choice but to be dragged into biology as well.
▪ This conversion was a benchmark for the conservation movement both locally and nationally.
▪ If the conservation movement had the same kind of publicity budget, the public might be given a more balanced picture.
nature
▪ This realisation of the cultural dimension to landscape history has implications for modern nature conservation.
▪ This should be altered to apply generally to ensure that nature conservation issues are taken into account in all development decision-making.
▪ There needs above all to be a consistency in the whole chain linking nature conservation policy with action on the ground.
▪ Those likely to have some relevance, either directly or indirectly, for nature conservation are examined below. 1.
▪ The government has proposed changing planning laws to ensure that nature conservation agencies and planning authorities abide by the directive.
▪ Métayer, a chemist at Nantes University, is president of a nature conservation association in the Loire region.
▪ It has also drastically altered landscapes and reduced the nature conservation interest associated with the former small fields and hedges or banks.
▪ In consequence, agriculture and nature conservation are not in conflict in the Auvergne uplands.
officer
▪ Although conservation matters are generally assigned on an area basis, many councils now have their own conservation officers.
▪ Paul Bright, the Mammal Society's conservation officer, discusses translocation in the society's latest newsletter.
policy
▪ So it is with conservation policies.
▪ Third, the choice of conservation techniques and/or other policy measures is another important component of a conservation policy.
▪ There needs above all to be a consistency in the whole chain linking nature conservation policy with action on the ground.
▪ Thus a conservation policy involves a wide ranging set of economic, political and social issues.
▪ The elements which are essential in most conservation policies are often contradicted by the limitations and objectives of foreign aid.
▪ That makes a total nonsense of conservation policy.
▪ Few actual conservation policies contain all these elements and it is difficult to attribute them in every case to implicit value judgements.
problem
▪ The evening raised over £125 for the Save the Elephant appeal and succeeded in creating awareness about many conservation problems.
▪ With the attainment of concrete operations, the ability to reason logically about and solve conservation problems emerges.
▪ This arrangement will avoid the usual conservation problems attendant upon storing costumes.
▪ When conflicts arise between perception and thought, as in conservation problems, children using preoperational reasoning make judgments based on perception.
▪ The reader is referred for further guidance to the many manuals now available that deal with conservation problems confronting archaeologists.
▪ In conservation problems, he is unaware of transformations of states and tends to center on limited perceptual aspects of problems.
▪ They are most clearly seen in what have come to be called conservation problems.
▪ As in the previous conservation problems, the preoperational child typically does not attend to all aspects of transformation that she sees.
programme
▪ The book is sponsored by Heinz as part of its £1 million Guardians of the Countryside conservation programme.
▪ A tough and wide-ranging conservation programme was introduced as an anti-famine measure.
▪ Examines the problems of conserving medicinal plants, suggests an appropriate national conservation programme and gives advice on international collaboration.
▪ Furthermore they may be different ones from other bilateral or multilateral agencies, making a coordinated national conservation programme rather difficult.
▪ Perhaps the most successful has been the wolf conservation programme adopted by the Nez Perce tribe of Idaho.
▪ It is not surprising that for every evaluation of a conservation programme or policy, there are perhaps ten of conservation techniques.
▪ The Electrical Engineering Manager is responsible for maintaining the Company's energy conservation programme.
▪ Energy Efficiency Since February 1989 we have operated an energy conservation programme through our own management team and contractors.
programmes
▪ Lastly conservation programmes often fail, and senior bureaucrats may have to take the blame.
▪ The discussion so far does not imply that piecemeal improvements of conservation programmes have not occurred.
▪ This very brief review of about ten conservation programmes can not make the case that all national policies fail.
▪ Energy conservation programmes in federal buildings and low-income housing developments.
▪ Thus conservation programmes must involve integration between upland and lowland agricultural systems.
▪ However, more evidence is needed about soil conservation programmes themselves.
▪ It is undoubtedly one of the major conservation programmes of the world.
▪ These various forms of differentiation within the bureaucracy are vital in the understanding of the formulation and implementation of conservation programmes.
project
▪ Panda Drinks will be raising at least £30,000 a year to be spent on our highest priority conservation projects.
▪ Alp Action is to launch a number of conservation projects, including reforestation, together with a public education programme.
▪ On June 12 the Bank had approved a loan of US$29,200 million for an environmental protection and resource conservation project.
▪ The work could take 10 years and will be the trust's biggest single building conservation project.
▪ For example, one can prove beyond a reasonable degree of doubt that a conservation project reduces the rate of soil removal.
▪ London Zoo has lagged behind, not in conservation projects but in publicising them.
▪ As the examples indicate, these are not straight conservation projects.
scheme
▪ Because the area is now supposed to be designated, farmers have been ineligible for grants from the many government conservation schemes.
▪ Most conservation schemes combine both mechanical and agronomic techniques, and in many instances they are complementary.
▪ The report calls for a nationwide audit of endangered species and places to be followed by a nationwide conservation scheme.
▪ A public inquiry was held and the conservation scheme won approval.
soil
▪ Some land reforms have embraced soil conservation as a sine qua non of long term productivity gains by land reform beneficiaries.
▪ At the same time, the effectiveness of soil conservation measures is apparent.
▪ This last point is one which is developed here in relation to soil conservation.
▪ In the absence of soil conservation, the productivity of these lands w ill inevitably decline rapidly.
▪ Examples of technical failures of mechanical means of soil conservation have already been given in Chapter 5.
▪ However, more evidence is needed about soil conservation programmes themselves.
▪ Both family planning and soil conservation are activities which governments attempt to get people to undertake.
technique
▪ For those who are in the professional fields closest to conservation techniques, this section will not offer them anything new.
▪ Third, the choice of conservation techniques and/or other policy measures is another important component of a conservation policy.
▪ Restriction of livestock with similar variations is also a frequent negative element in combinations of conservation techniques.
▪ It is not surprising that for every evaluation of a conservation programme or policy, there are perhaps ten of conservation techniques.
▪ It is an almost universal assumption that a conservation policy is a set of conservation techniques - and very little else.
value
▪ The destruction slowed down because of surpluses in farmland and an increased realisation of the woodland's conservation value.
▪ The socio-economic survey will examine how land varying conservation value fits into farm operations.
▪ The research undertaken will provide a basis for nature conservation in the wider countryside and aid the promotion of nature conservation values.
water
▪ Campaigners claim that the company has not examined other approaches, such as water conservation and the cleaning of existing reservoirs.
▪ With fanfare, a program of water conservation was launched.
▪ Agriculturalists Experience in solid and water conservation.
▪ As organisms evolved to populate land, they required an elaborate mechanism of water conservation.
▪ A forum, quays, harbours, villas, baths and theatres were constructed also a system of water conservation and control.
▪ Sao Paulo state officials admit that more aggressive long-term water conservation may have averted, or at least eased, the crisis.
wildlife
▪ Strong science-based strategies for wildlife conservation have emerged over the last one hundred years.
▪ Also in these seminars, discussion will focus on wildlife conservation.
▪ They are extraordinary plumes, and they certainly altered the face of international wildlife conservation.
work
▪ The awards scheme, launched last year, aims to demonstrate how game shooting and conservation work for a better countryside.
▪ Both frame and painting will go on permanent view this fall, after conservation work on the frame has been completed.
▪ Alternative and supplementary schedules were published for conservation work and for community architecture services.
▪ The land is owned by Darlington Council, who are funding the conservation work.
▪ Mr. Warshaw, who specialises exclusively in conservation work says the immediate benefits are both financial and aesthetic.
▪ Living in camps, they carried out conservation work, planting new forests and helping with flood control projects.
▪ Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work.
▪ We have no state aid and individuals such as yourself are the life blood of our conservation work.
■ VERB
include
▪ The design team has even included detailed information on conservation, opportunities for volunteers, and community and outreach initiatives.
▪ Large numbers of them have been included in conservation areas over the past 20 years.
▪ Data layers include geological maps, conservation areas, transport routes, petrochemical facilities and demographic data.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the conservation of several species of dolphin
▪ The flower now exists only in a small conservation area in Essex.
▪ The group is mainly concerned with bird conservation in coastal areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Courses on the latter are open to non-members who are actively involved with other voluntary conservation bodies.
▪ It does tie in with conservation.
▪ Special privilege is another consequence of politics in conservation.
▪ That technique -- a form of so-called conservation tillage -- leaves dead stubble on the ground in place of neatly cleared rows.
▪ The committee soon offered a comprehensive plan for redevelopment and conservation in all areas of the city.
▪ The reverse is true for older counterparts, who develop schemata that permit conservation.
▪ There have been gains for nature conservation in that the storms have prompted a fundamental questioning of the received view.