"Preservation" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

Keeping safe from harm; avoiding Injury, destruction, or decay. This term always presupposes a real or existing danger. See Grihble v. wilson, 101 Tenn. 612, 49 S. W. 730; Neuendorff v. Dur-yea, 52 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 260

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe;
the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or
decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a
picture in good preservation.