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
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Conservation"

Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World
The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard
Wrecker
The Book of Birds
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with Your Yard
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains
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
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Windy Night with Wild Horses (Magic Tree House, #39)
Mother of Sharks
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back
Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
Safe Crossing
The Elephants of Thula Thula
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Desert Jungle
A Wild Idea: The True Story of Doug Tompkins―From Corporate Capitalism to Conservation Legacy in Patagonia's Wilderness
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
The Shark Caller
Shark Girl
Bruce Saves the Planet (Mother Bruce Series)
The Lie of the Land
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
All the Ice Cream in the World
A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou
Solar Bear
Rhinos at Recess (Magic Tree House #37)
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Little Land
The Girl Who Heard the Music
Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth (Our Universe, 6)
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear
My Dear Sea
Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story About the Things We (Don't) Throw Away
The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure
Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado
Stand as Tall as the Trees: How an Amazonian Community Protected the Rain Forest
Rewilding Africa: Restoring the Wilderness on a War-ravaged Continent
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
The Lion Queen: Rasila Vadher, the First Woman Guardian of the Last Asiatic Lions
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat
Cornerstones: Wild Forces that can Change Our World
Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
Polar Bear
Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Incredible Journey Home
The Mystery of the Monarchs
Only One
After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
Butterfly for a King: Saving Hawaiʻi's Kamehameha Butterflies
Questions Raised by Quolls: Fatherhood and Conservation in an Uncertain World
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch
Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Politics of the Living)
Swan Song
Trillions of Trees: A Counting and Planting Book
Zonia's Rain Forest
It's Only One!
How to Conserve Conservationists
Just One Bee
Dawn at Mineral King Valley
Walking with Gorillas: The Journey of an African Wildlife Vet
Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day
The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement

Edward Abbey
“ Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it all of our time or effort or heart. Give what you can, but do not burn yourselves out -- or break your hearts. Let us save at least half of our lives for the enjoyment of this wonderful world which still exists. Leave your dens, abandon your cars and walk out into the great mountains, the deserts, the forests, the seashores. Those treasures still belong to all of us. Enjoy them to the full, stretc ...more ”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Henry David Thoreau
“ When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I h ...more ”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861

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