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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New Releases Tagged "Conservation"

Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Insectopolis: A Natural History
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Lost Whale
Wrecker
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
Shark Girl
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Silent Spring
Last Chance to See
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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
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
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Amazon Rainforest
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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
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Environmental Novels
74 books — 98 voters

The Sea Around Us by Rachel CarsonOctopus by Jennifer A. MatherVoyage of the Turtle by Carl SafinaDemon Fish by Juliet EilperinSea Change by Sylvia A. Earle
Ocean/Marine Conservation
71 books — 47 voters
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
12 books — 3 voters


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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Aldo Leopold
The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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