What is conservation? The definition of conservation is ensuring there is enough natural resources on the planet, things like animals, plants and fuel for current and future generations. This may sound a little complicated, so let's break it down. In the question, it means protecting the earth from things such as climate change, protecting habitats from being destroyed, protecting animals from going extinct, and protecting the earth from pollution, such as plastic in our oceans. Therefore conservation of these things like wild animals and their habitats need to be monitored and managed. To monitor something is to watch and record it. For example, we can monitor forests to see how many trees there are. If these trees are disappearing and going down a number, we may ask why this is happening. If it's to do with people cutting trees down, then we can help by replacing the trees lost with new ones, and this is a type of management. Overall, conservation is about the balance of nature and understanding this balance. If we take too much by destroying habitats and polluting the earth, this balance will be lost. In this series, we will talk more about this balance of nature and learn about many different aspects of conservation.