103 books
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11 voters
Biodiversity Books
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,911 ratings — published 2014
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 8 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,251 ratings — published 1992
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.51 — 176,478 ratings — published 2013
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth (Our Natural World)
by (shelved 5 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.32 — 477 ratings — published 2017
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,493 ratings — published 2006
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.46 — 36,329 ratings — published 2022
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,593 ratings — published 2018
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,955 ratings — published 2016
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,233 ratings — published 2021
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,687 ratings — published 1996
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,904 ratings — published 2024
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,925 ratings — published 2019
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.65 — 26 ratings — published 2019
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,380 ratings — published 1962
The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,275 ratings — published 2020
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,788 ratings — published 2020
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,665 ratings — published 2001
The Life of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,981 ratings — published 1998
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,579 ratings — published 2022
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.80 — 309,250 ratings — published 2014
Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - An Illustrated Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.48 — 104 ratings — published
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,196 ratings — published 2016
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,268 ratings — published 2015
The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.48 — 249 ratings — published 2023
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,323 ratings — published 2021
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,055 ratings — published 2020
Life in the Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.97 — 37 ratings — published 1998
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,956 ratings — published 2021
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.25 — 887 ratings — published 2004
Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.34 — 140 ratings — published 2019
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,004 ratings — published 2015
Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.55 — 22 ratings — published 2005
On the Edge: The State and Fate of the World's Tropical Rainforests (David Suzuki Institute)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 2015
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.26 — 973 ratings — published 2012
Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist's View of the Crisis We Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.91 — 23 ratings — published 2011
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,173 ratings — published 2006
Naturalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,800 ratings — published 1994
Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.97 — 106 ratings — published 2010
The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.35 — 62 ratings — published 2010
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,099 ratings — published 2018
Biodiversity (Papers from the 1st National Forum on Biodiversity, September 1986, Washington, D.C.)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.52 — 221 ratings — published 1988
The Book of Indian Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.45 — 299 ratings — published 1941
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.75 — 765 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,773 ratings — published 1976
The Edge of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,553 ratings — published 1955
The Life of Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,008 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,271 ratings — published 2002
The Vanishing Sea: The Tale of How the Aral Sea Became the Aral Desert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published
Think Like a Mountain (Green Ideas)
by (shelved 1 time as biodiversity)
avg rating 3.88 — 309 ratings — published 1949
When Beavers Move In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as biodiversity)
avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published
“Balancing the needs of human societies with the preservation of freshwater ecosystems requires a paradigm shift towards more sustainable water use. This involves reevaluating the environmental impact of large-scale water extraction projects, promoting water conservation practices, and investing in alternative water sources to alleviate pressure on natural habitats.”
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“Too many people just like me, who want to tramp in here with cameras, with backpacks, or with dirt bikes or mining licences, with cats and dogs and bulldozers and building permits, with a hankering for palm oil or rhino horn or rainforest timber, the seven billion of my own species. All of us with a terrible hunger. All of us with a ready narrative about why we deserve to get what we want.”
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