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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Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
Insectopolis: A Natural History
Wrecker
A Wild Idea
The Lost Whale
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
Shark Girl
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
Safe Crossing
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Silent Spring
Last Chance to See
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Elephant Whisperer
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
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Wilding
Wanderland by Jini ReddyGreen Unpleasant Land by Corinne FowlerHidden Nature by Alys FowlerWomen on Nature by Katharine NorburyWho Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole
Diversity in the Outdoors UK
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The Comfort of Crows by Margaret RenklThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenThe Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy TanProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverThe Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Books Actually About Nature
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Blood River by Tim ButcherTithing and Giving by J.A.    CoxEchoes in the Walls by Katrina MorganThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
Memoirs of Experiments
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Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Best Environmental Books
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Theodore Roosevelt
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.
Theodore Roosevelt

Terry Pratchett
This book was written using 100% recycled words.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

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