Most Read This Week In 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 ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Conservation"

Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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

Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains

Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse

Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm

Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement

The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

Bruce Saves the Planet (Mother Bruce Series)

The Lion Queen: Rasila Vadher, the First Woman Guardian of the Last Asiatic Lions

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with Your Yard

Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat

Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawaiʻi's Kamehameha Butterflies

Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough

The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds

Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation

Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day

Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope

Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado

Rewilding Africa: Restoring the Wilderness on a War-ravaged Continent

Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Trillions of Trees: A Counting and Planting Book

Cornerstones: Wild Forces that can Change Our World

Walking with Gorillas: The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet

Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back

Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth (Our Universe, 6)

After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort

Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer

Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story About the Things We (Don't) Throw Away

The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure

Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability

Stand as Tall as the Trees: How an Amazonian Community Protected the Rain Forest

Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation

Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet

Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Incredible Journey Home – A Gorgeous Picture Book about Patience and Nature for Children

Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Politics of the Living)

Questions Raised by Quolls: Fatherhood and Conservation in an Uncertain World

Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch

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Quotes Tagged “Conservation”

“ No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric.” None has ever thought of its connection to its home place as “ecological,” deep or shallow. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament, and we can hardly escape the need to speak of “ecology” and “ecosystems.” But the terms themselves are culturally sterile. They come from the juiceless, No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric.” None has ever thought of its connection to its home place as “ecological,” deep or shallow. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament, and we can hardly escape the need to speak of “ecology” and “ecosystems.” But the terms themselves are culturally sterile. They come from the juiceless, abstract intellectuality of the universities which was invented to disconnect, displace, and disembody the mind. The real names of the environment are the names of rivers and river valleys; creeks, ridges, and mountains; towns and cities; lakes, woodlands, lanes roads, creatures, and people. And the real name of our connection to this everywhere different and differently named earth is “work.” We are connected by work even to the places where we don’t work, for all places are connected; it is clear by now that we cannot exempt one place from our ruin of another. The name of our proper connection to the earth is “good work,” for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing. Good work is always modestly scaled, for it cannot ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known. Good work can be defined only in particularity, for it must be defined a little differently for every one of the places and every one of the workers on the earth. The name of our present society’s connection to the earth is “bad work” – work that is only generally and crudely defined, that enacts a dependence that is ill understood, that enacts no affection and gives no honor. Every one of us is to some extent guilty of this bad work. This guilt does not mean that we must indulge in a lot of breast-beating and confession; it means only that there is much good work to be done by every one of us and that we must begin to do it. ...more ”
― Wendell Berry

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“ We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is ei ...more ”
― Moss Cass

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