0 someone who works to protect the environment from the damaging effects of human activity: --
1 a person who believes in or works for the protection of plants, animals, and natural areas, esp. from the damaging effects of human activity --
Even with time on their side, however, conservationists debated various strategies for coming to a quick resolution.
The plea for more incentives, subsidies, investments, institutions, resource rights and so on serves to demonstrate the up-hill battle that conservationists are fighting.
Forced to choose between protecting endangered species and poverty alleviation, many conservationists opt for the former, seeing preservation as fundamental for the greater global good.
While habitat preservation must remain the top priority, biologists and conservationists should not neglect to consider the insidious threat of exotic species.
Throughout the patterns of economic and social change are more to the fore than the history of conservationists.
I doubt whether ' fortress conservationists ' will be convinced by this volume, since narratives generally are not judged by their actual achievements.
Certainly compared to some explorations of conservationist ideas, this discussion is embedded in the specifics of a production system.
The possibility to shelve a polluting technology temporarily allows for a more conservationist policy.
