preservationist
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- n someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas
- But having given Koizumi his shot, the calcified, self-preservationist LDP elders will not be as eager to watch him engineer their downfall.
- Less well known are his epic efforts, detailed here by historian Douglas Brinkley, as a conservationist-preservationist.
- American zoos are leading the battle to stop that clock and recruit others to the preservationist's cause.