conservationist

[ kon-ser-vey-shuh-nist ]

noun

1. a person who advocates or promotes conservation, especially of natural resources.

conservationist

/ ˌkɒnsəˈveɪʃənɪst /

noun

1. a person who advocates or strongly promotes preservation and careful management of natural resources and of the environment

Other Words From

• anti·conser·vation·ist noun
• procon·ser·vation·ist adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of conservationist¹

First recorded in 1865–70; conservation + -ist

Example Sentences

A co-author of the study, she’s a conservationist at Oxford Brookes University in England.

From Science News For Students

For generations, conservationists have trained in the art of ensuring near-perfect authenticity in their restoration work.

From Ozy

Other conservationists in Barlow’s area may need to have 30 to 40 security guards on staff to make sure that the animals are constantly protected.

From Popular-Science

Instead, conservationists now seek genetic variation that gives the plants more options for what the future will throw at them.

From Science News

Independents make up a third of the Montana electorate, and in this critical election year, Daines’s ability to convince those voters of his trustworthiness as a conservationist may decide the partisan balance of the Senate.

From Outside Online

There is no effort on the part of the Conservationist to interfere with any duty that the State ought to and can perform.

From Project Gutenberg

Make this a rule and you will avoid friction and show yourself truly a conservationist with the best.

From Project Gutenberg

He admitted to his friend, conservationist Gifford Pinchot, that the problem would have to be faced someday, but not during a war.

From Project Gutenberg

The beaver is a valuable conservationist, but there are localities in which he cannot be tolerated.

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The bear will gorge himself on these cherries, and he is no conservationist.

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Related Words

• environmentalist