Conservation and Nature Appreciation
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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures 4.16 avg rating — 3,442 ratings
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Journeys to the Other Side of the World: Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist 4.32 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future 4.50 avg rating — 33,106 ratings
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments 4.05 avg rating — 23,281 ratings
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by:
Paul Hawken
4.40 avg rating — 4,279 ratings 8. 
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
by:
Paul Hawken
4.34 avg rating — 680 ratings 9. 
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
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Caspar Henderson
4.05 avg rating — 1,442 ratings 
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Gorillas in the Mist: A Remarkable Story of Thirteen Years Spent Living with the Greatest of the Great Apes
by:
Dian Fossey
4.15 avg rating — 21,056 ratings 13. 
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
by:
Sy Montgomery
3.94 avg rating — 57,042 ratings 
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Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders
by:
Cara Giaimo
4.51 avg rating — 167 ratings 17. 
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by:
Merlin Sheldrake
4.33 avg rating — 47,228 ratings 18. 
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,444 ratings
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by:
Ed Yong
4.47 avg rating — 32,511 ratings 22. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings 23. 
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by:
Zoë Schlanger
4.28 avg rating — 6,421 ratings 24. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,763 ratings 25. 
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
by:
Suzanne Simard
4.21 avg rating — 15,845 ratings 26. 
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by:
John Vaillant
4.12 avg rating — 12,029 ratings 
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,652 ratings 
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
by:
Jane Goodall
4.16 avg rating — 1,385 ratings 37. 
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by:
David Quammen
4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings 
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
by:
Ben Goldfarb
4.43 avg rating — 3,175 ratings 42. 
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
by:
Jon Mooallem
4.05 avg rating — 2,616 ratings 43. 
Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough
by:
Hayley Rocco
4.29 avg rating — 381 ratings 44. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 45. 
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by:
Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 6,948 ratings 46. 
Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
by:
Alan Rabinowitz
3.97 avg rating — 297 ratings 47. 
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
by:
Annie Proulx
3.63 avg rating — 2,848 ratings 48. 
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
by:
Franck Prévot
4.27 avg rating — 700 ratings 
