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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.31 — 38,082 ratings — published 1949
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 193,564 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,982 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.07 — 57,734 ratings — published 1962
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,873 ratings — published 2020
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,870 ratings — published 2026
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,803 ratings — published 1990
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,149 ratings — published 2009
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,478 ratings — published 2020
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,911 ratings — published 2002
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,534 ratings — published 2019
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,955 ratings — published 2025
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,581 ratings — published 2014
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,728 ratings — published 2017
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,479 ratings — published 2023
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 56,926 ratings — published 2024
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,320 ratings — published 2018
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,463 ratings — published 2020
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.51 — 34,949 ratings — published 2009
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,748 ratings — published 2024
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,212 ratings — published 2020
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,587 ratings — published 1968
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,264 ratings — published 2014
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,567 ratings — published 2008
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,577 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 211,908 ratings — published 2018
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.06 — 94,285 ratings — published 2015
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,218 ratings — published 2012
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.25 — 79,712 ratings — published 2024
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,689 ratings — published 2013
Wilderness and the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,092 ratings — published 1967
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,622 ratings — published 2021
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,314 ratings — published 2020
A Boy and a Jaguar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,443 ratings — published 2014
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,751 ratings — published 2020
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,215 ratings — published 2018
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,291 ratings — published 2018
Hoot (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 112,353 ratings — published 2002
The Future of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,314 ratings — published 2002
That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,540 ratings — published 2019
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,047 ratings — published 2016
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,421 ratings — published 2016
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.97 — 292 ratings — published 2009
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,418 ratings — published 1983
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,451 ratings — published 2009
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,409 ratings — published 2023
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,800 ratings — published 1996
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,109 ratings — published 2008
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,399 ratings — published 2021
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as conservation)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,430 ratings — published 2003
“We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us.”
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“The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”
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