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"

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

Carl Sagan
Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.
Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrim ...more
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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