'cultural conservation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the preservation of elements of a particular culture, such as language, traditions, artwork, and other cultural artifacts. For example, "The community is working together to promote cultural conservation through music and language classes."
It's depressing to watch people deploy the language of cultural conservation to frustrate efforts at environmental conservation.
Now, on this evening in June 2011, the financial adviser and social worker and music professor and Navy officer, and the other half-dozen people joining in harmony from their chairs, were engaging in a profound act of cultural conservation.
A less noticed parallel is that between the opposition of cultural conservation and modernism, and that of conservatism and revolutionary Jacobinism (Cohen 2007, Other Internet Resources).
"It provides a wonderful opportunity to integrate conservation efforts - you can have people who can get funding for biological conservation, and they can collaborate with people who can get funding for linguistic or cultural conservation," he suggested.
Their traditional land use practices and cultural conservation ethic have helped to protect the natural resource base upon which they depend and the wildlife that co-exist with them in the grassland landscapes.
In addition new instrumentation and approaches are required to study objects in museums, posing special challenges, for example miniaturisation to bring non-invasive measurements into the museum shelves, screening large numbers of objects, finding out about hidden layers in paintings, checking for possible decay, all need methods tailored to the needs of cultural conservation.
Bhutan's principles have been set in policy through the gross national happiness index, based on equitable social development, cultural preservation, conservation of the environment and promotion of good governance.
Seacology also awards its annual Seacology Prize to indigenous islanders for their efforts in conservation and cultural preservation.
Created by cofounder Bill Marré in 1992 and underwritten by Ken Murdock in honor of his mother, the Seacology Prize is awarded each year to an indigenous islander based on achievements in island conservation and cultural preservation.
