Conservation

Conservation is the act of preserving, guarding or protecting; wise use.

Conservation may refer to:
* Conservation of biodiversity, environment, and natural resources, including protection and management
* Conservation of Cultural heritage or Art conservation, protection and restoration of cultural heritage, including works of art and architecture, as well as archaeological and historical artefacts
* Conservation law, measurable property of isolated physical system that does not change as the system evolves, including conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, an
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Wrecker
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
The Lost Whale
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Insectopolis: A Natural History
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
Twitch (The Twitchers, #1)
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
The Elephants of Thula Thula
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Silent Spring
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Last Chance to See
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
Desert Solitaire
The Overstory
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
The Sea Around Us by Rachel CarsonOctopus by Jennifer A. MatherVoyage of the Turtle by Carl SafinaDemon Fish by Juliet EilperinSea Change by Sylvia A. Earle
Ocean/Marine Conservation
72 books — 48 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Modern Science Nonfiction
453 books — 307 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherTithing and Giving by J.A.    CoxThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim ButcherAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of Experiments
240 books — 112 voters

Hyena by Mikita BrottmanCrow by Boria SaxTurtle by Louise M. PrykeScorpion by Louise M. PrykeWhale by Joe   Roman
Reaktion Animal Books
104 books — 13 voters


Theodore Roosevelt
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mahatma Gandhi
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. ...more
Mahatma Gandhi

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