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What in nature do you appreciate? Clean air? Fresh drinking water? Wildflowers? Conservation is about balancing some of the needs of people—places to live, work, play, go to school—with the need for a planet that will be healthy for years to come. Conservation helps us protect what we want to be here tomorrow for others to enjoy. Conservation and geography are closely linked. As geography helps us to better understand our planet’s complexity, conservation enables us to become better protectors of its biological and cultural diversity.

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