The phrase "a struggle to save" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or challenges faced in trying to preserve something, whether it be resources, relationships, or situations.
Example: "The community faced a struggle to save their local park from being developed into a shopping center."
Alternatives: "an effort to preserve" or "a fight to protect".
As its steel mills and shipyards declined, militant unions and firebrands launched a struggle to save them, and Scottish politics swung left.
The Civil War, which began as a struggle to save the Union, became a crusade to extend freedom to four million slaves.
When Sulpicius Galba raised a rebellion against Nero in 68, Tigellinus gave up his power so that he would not have to risk his life in a struggle to save Nero's regime.
And his son, Ali Musa Gilani, a member of parliament, was questioned by the anti-narcotics force over a scandal involving the production of the drug Ecstasy.Mr Gilani senior likes to paint his troubles as a struggle to save democracy.
The Loach of Cathy Come Home and Kes immediately found a story he could relate to: the club was in a struggle to save its ground from property developers, and a group of supporters including Loach raised £250,000 to buy the principal shareholder out.
The trip was fascinating and the people I met were full of hope for the future, but the dominant theme was struggle -- a struggle to escape the Deep South and to found the towns, and now a struggle to save them.
A turtle is brutally chopped in half, moving Jacobs to reflect on how a friend's pet turtle would outlive her; a riverboat captain is "engaged in a quixotic struggle to save the wildlife of the Magdelena.
In the crowd that sultry afternoon was Helen Binney Kitchel, whose family invented Crayola crayons and who in a few years would be engaged in a futile struggle to save Laddin's Rock farm from development.
The impulse was admirable: it was a selfless struggle to save the endangered.
"This case is quite perplexing," Clarence Darrow wrote his ex-wife in 1924, "and will most likely be a hard struggle to save the lives of the boys".
Faced with a long struggle to save the game when they resumed on 24 for two, Kevin Pietersen was the only batsman dismissed in the morning session, and Ian Bell the only other casualty before the thunder, lightning and hail that had been advancing steadily from the Queensland interior arrived at The Gabba just before 2pm.
