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
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
Windy Night with Wild Horses (Magic Tree House, #39)
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
Rhinos at Recess (Magic Tree House #37)
The Elephants of Thula Thula
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
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
Wilderness and the American Mind
The Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Great Kapok Tree by Lynne CherryOwl Moon by Jane YolenThe Little House by Virginia Lee BurtonMiss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
"Green" Picture Books
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Rats by Robert SullivanLily Pond by Hope RydenThe Irish Wildlife Book by Fergus O'GormanPaddy by R.D. LawrenceEager by Ben  Goldfarb
Natural History of Rodents
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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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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
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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

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