Conservation involves sustainably managing natural resources and protecting habitats and biodiversity. It focuses on maintaining the health of the environment. Conservation also aims to preserve materials and energy. People who promote and work in conservation are called conservationists. Transboundary conservation specifically deals with protecting environments that cross international borders, like shared waterways or migratory species. Treaties sometimes try to manage disputes over shared natural resources between countries and safeguard transborder ecosystems.

1. Conservation
By: Ruth Grace Dupingay

2. Conservation
• Is an ethic of resource use, allocation and protection. Its primary focus is
upon maintaining the health of the natural world, its fisheries, habitats and
biological diversity.
• Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation which
are seen as important to protect the natural world.
• Those who follow the conservation ethic and especially those who advocate
or work toward conservation is called conservationists.

3. Trans-boarder conservation
• Trans-boarder conservation or Transboundary conservation can be loosely
defined as the subset of international relations focusing in particular
protection of international boarders and boarder region such as the boarder
territories.
• Applying trans-boarder is often less straight forward, as exemplified in an
attempt to a large number of environmental issues, water conflicts, air
pollution, migratory species, and trans-boarder landscapes and ecosystems.

4. • However there are treaties to be attempted to go beyond the settlement of
disputes over rights toward the protection of its territory by diplomats and
scholars who have developed a somewhat convoluted web of inter-rational
legal principles around the subject of international territories.

5. • Example:
• Fierce disputes over the quantity and quality of transborder water including
rivers, lakes, and even groundwater.
• Mercury emissions from an industrial facility that directly affect a
neighboring state downwind do constitute a transborder problem.

6. Sources:
• http://hotbabefatchicks.hubpages.com/hub/The-Meaning-of-Conservation
• http://www.ecoca.ro/meteo/tutorial/Sustainability/Older/Conservation_and_
Preservation.html
• http://www.ask.com/question/define-renewable-natural-resources