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Preservationist

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who advocates for the preservation of natural or man-made landmarks.

    "Thanks to cheap storage and easy copying, our digital souls have the potential to be truly immortal. But do we really want everything we’ve done online – offhand comments, camera-phone snaps or embarrassing surfing habits – to be preserved for posterity? One school of thought, the “preservationists”, believes we owe it to our descendants."

  2. 2
    someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas wordnet

Etymology

From preservation + -ist.

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