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{{Short description|Social and political advocacy for protecting natural resources}}
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The '''conservation movement''', also known as '''[[nature conservation]]''', is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect [[natural resource]]s, including [[animal]], [[fungus]], and [[plant species]] as well as their habitat for the future. Conservationists are concerned with leaving the environment in a better state than the condition they found it in.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harding|first=Russ|title=Conservationist or Environmentalist?|url=http://www.mackinac.org/9852|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-02|website=[[Mackinac Center for Public Policy]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203181206/http://www.mackinac.org/9852 |archive-date=2008-12-03 }}</ref> [[Evidence-based conservation]] seeks to use high quality scientific evidence to make conservation efforts more effective.

The early conservation movement evolved out of necessity to maintain natural resources such as [[fisheries]], [[wildlife management]], [[water]], [[soil]], as well as [[conservation (ethic)|conservation]] and [[sustainable forestry]]. The contemporary conservation movement has broadened from the early movement's emphasis on use of sustainable yield of natural resources and preservation of [[wilderness]] areas to include preservation of [[biodiversity]]. Some say the conservation movement is part of the broader and more far-reaching [[environmental movement]], while others argue that they differ both in ideology and practice. Conservation is seen as differing from [[environmentalism]] and it is generally a conservative school of thought which aims to preserve natural resources expressly for their continued [[sustainable]] use by humans.<ref>{{cite book
| last      = Gifford
| first     = John C.
| title     = Living by the Land
| publisher = Glade House
| year      = 1945
| location  = Coral Gables, Florida
| pages     = 8
| asin      = B0006EUXGQ }}</ref>

== History ==
{{See also|Timeline of environmental events}}

===Early history===
[[File:Sylva paper 1662.jpg|right|thumb| ''Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions,'' title page of the first edition (1664)]]
The conservation movement can be traced back to [[John Evelyn]]'s work ''[[Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber|Sylva]]'', which was presented as a paper to the [[Royal Society]] in 1662. Published as a book two years later, it was one of the most highly influential texts on [[forestry]] ever published.<ref>[[John Evelyn]], ''Sylva, Or A Discourse of Forest Trees ... with an Essay on the Life and Works of the Author by John Nisbet'', Fourth Edition (1706), reprinted London: Doubleday & Co., 1908, V1, p. lxv; online edn, March 2007 [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20778/20778-h/20778-h.htm], accessed 29 Dec 2012. This source (John Nisbet) states: "There can be no doubt that John Evelyn, both during his own lifetime and throughout the two centuries which have elapsed since his death in 1706, has exerted more individual influence, through his charming ''Sylva'', ... than can be ascribed to any other individual." Nisbet adds that "Evelyn was by no means the first [author] who wrote on [forestry]. That honour belongs to Master [[Anthony Fitzherbert|Fitzherbert]], whose ''Boke of Husbandrie'' was published in 1534" (V1, p. lxvi).</ref> Timber resources in England were becoming dangerously depleted at the time, and Evelyn advocated the importance of conserving the forests by managing the rate of depletion and ensuring that the cut down trees get replenished.

[[Khejarli]] massacre:

The [[Bishnoi]] narrate the story of [[Amrita Devi]], a member of the sect who inspired as many as 363 other Bishnois to go to their deaths in protest of the cutting down of [[Khejri]] trees on 12 September 1730.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Badri |first=Adarsh |date=2024-03-04 |title=Feeling for the Anthropocene: affective relations and ecological activism in the global South |url=https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/100/2/731/7596599 |journal=International Affairs |language=en |volume=100 |issue=2 |pages=731–749 |doi=10.1093/ia/iiae010 |issn=0020-5850|doi-access=free }}</ref> The Maharaja of [[Jodhpur]], [[Abhai Singh of Marwar|Abhay Singh]], requiring wood for the construction of a new palace, sent soldiers to cut trees in the village of Khejarli, which was called Jehnad at that time. Noticing their actions, Amrita Devi hugged a tree in an attempt to stop them. Her family then adopted the same strategy, as did other local people when the news spread. She told the soldiers that she considered their actions to be an insult to her faith and that she was prepared to die to save the trees. The soldiers did indeed kill her and others until Abhay Singh was informed of what was going on and intervened to stop the massacre.
Some of the 363 Bishnois who were killed protecting the trees were buried in Khejarli, where a simple grave with four pillars was erected. Every year, in September, i.e., Shukla Dashmi of Bhadrapad (Hindi month) the Bishnois assemble there to commemorate the sacrifice made by their people to preserve the trees.

The field developed during the 18th century, especially in [[Prussia]] and France where scientific forestry methods were developed. These methods were first applied rigorously in [[British India]] from the early 19th century. The government was interested in the use of [[forest produce]] and began managing the forests with measures to reduce the risk of wildfire in order to protect the "household" of nature, as it was then termed. This early ecological idea was in order to preserve the growth of delicate [[teak]] trees, which was an important resource for the [[Royal Navy]].

Concerns over teak depletion were raised as early as 1799 and 1805 when the Navy was undergoing a massive expansion during the [[Napoleonic War]]s; this pressure led to the first formal conservation Act, which prohibited the felling of small teak trees. The first forestry officer was appointed in 1806 to regulate and preserve the trees necessary for shipbuilding.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/forestry/history.htm|title=History of forests in India|access-date=2013-10-13|archive-date=2018-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904091500/http://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/forestry/history.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

This promising start received a setback in the 1820s and 30s, when [[laissez-faire]] economics and complaints from private landowners brought these early conservation attempts to an end.

In 1837, American poet [[George Pope Morris]] published "Woodman, Spare that Tree!", a [[Romantic poetry|Romantic]] poem urging a lumberjack to avoid an [[Oak|oak tree]] that has sentimental value. The poem was set to music later that year by [[Henry Russell (musician)|Henry Russell]]. Lines from the song have been quoted by environmentalists.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26401592|title=Best remembered poems|date=1992|publisher=Dover Publications|others=Martin Gardner|isbn=0-486-27165-X|location=New York|pages=118|language=English|oclc=26401592}}</ref>

===Origins of the modern conservation movement===
Conservation was revived in the mid-19th century, with the first practical application of scientific conservation principles to the forests of India. The conservation ethic that began to evolve included three core principles: that human activity damaged the [[Natural environment|environment]], that there was a [[civic duty]] to maintain the environment for future generations, and that scientific, empirically based methods should be applied to ensure this duty was carried out. Sir [[James Ranald Martin]] was prominent in promoting this ideology, publishing many medico-topographical reports that demonstrated the scale of damage wrought through large-scale deforestation and desiccation, and lobbying extensively for the institutionalization of forest conservation activities in [[British India]] through the establishment of [[Indian Forest Service|Forest Departments]].<ref>Stebbing,<!--checkp--> E.P. (1922)''The forests of India'' vol. 1, pp. 72-81</ref> [[Edward Percy Stebbing]] warned of [[desertification]] of India. The [[Madras]] Board of Revenue started local conservation efforts in 1842, headed by [[Alexander Gibson (botanist)|Alexander Gibson]], a professional [[botany|botanist]] who systematically adopted a forest conservation program based on scientific principles. This was the first case of state management of forests in the world.<ref>{{cite book |last=Barton |first=Greg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WDYlNljAP5AC|title=Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=48|isbn=9781139434607 }}</ref>

These local attempts gradually received more attention by the British government as the unregulated felling of trees continued unabated. In 1850, the [[British Association]] in Edinburgh formed a committee to study forest destruction at the behest of [[Hugh Francis Cleghorn|Hugh Cleghorn]] a pioneer in the nascent conservation movement.

He had become interested in [[Sustainable forest management|forest conservation]] in [[Mysore]] in 1847 and gave several lectures at the Association on the failure of agriculture in India. These lectures influenced the government under [[Governor-General of India|Governor-General]] [[James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie|Lord Dalhousie]] to introduce the first permanent and large-scale forest conservation program in the world in 1855, a model that soon spread to [[British Empire|other colonies]], as well the [[United States]]. In the same year, Cleghorn organised the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department|Madras Forest Department]] and in 1860 the department banned the use [[shifting cultivation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/11/05/stories/2007110550080500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108213227/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/11/05/stories/2007110550080500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 8, 2007|title=A life for forestry|last=MUTHIAH|first=S. |date=Nov 5, 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> Cleghorn's 1861 manual, ''The forests and gardens of South India'', became the definitive work on the subject and was widely used by forest assistants in the subcontinent.<ref name="Cleghorn">{{cite book|last=Cleghorn|first=Hugh Francis Clarke |title=The Forests and Gardens of South India |publisher=W. H. Allen|location=London|year= 1861|edition=Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized Feb 10, 2006|oclc= 301345427|url=http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/301345427?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_ZbC9FY1JqIC%26checksum%3D374d90c92770a514a51708f07461f0b3&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail=}}</ref> In 1861, the Forest Department extended its remit into the [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Oliver|first=J.W.|title=The Indian Forester|publisher=R. P. Sharma, Business Manager, Indian Forester|location=Allahabad|year=1901|edition=Original from Harvard University, Digitized Apr 4, 2008|volume= v.27 |pages=617–623|chapter=Forestry in India|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2U8YAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Douglas+Hamilton%22+madras++-johnson+-elephant+-whale+-william+1862&pg=PA623}}</ref>

[[File:Sir William Schlich07.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Schlich, in the middle of the seated row, with students from the forestry school at Oxford, on a visit to the forests of Saxony in the year 1892]]
Sir [[Dietrich Brandis]], a [[Germany|German]] forester, joined the British service in 1856 as superintendent of the teak forests of Pegu division in eastern [[Myanmar|Burma]]. During that time Burma's [[teak]] forests were controlled by militant [[Karen people|Karen]] tribals. He introduced the "taungya" system,<ref>King KFS (1968). "Agro-silviculture (the taungya system)". University of Ibadan / Dept. of Forestry, Bulletin no. 1, 109</ref> in which Karen villagers provided labor for clearing, planting and weeding teak plantations. After seven years in Burma, Brandis was appointed Inspector General of Forests in India, a position he served in for 20 years. He formulated new forest legislation and helped establish research and training institutions. The [[Imperial Forest School]] at [[Dehradun]] was founded by him.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Weil|first1=Benjamin|title=Conservation, Exploitation, and Cultural Change in the Indian Forest Service, 1875-1927|journal=Environmental History|date=1 April 2006|volume=11|issue=2|pages=319–343|doi=10.1093/envhis/11.2.319|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233861694}}</ref><ref>Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, ''This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India'' (1993)</ref>

Germans were prominent in the forestry administration of British India. As well as Brandis, [[Berthold Ribbentrop]] and [[Sir William P.D. Schlich]] brought new methods to Indian conservation, the latter becoming the Inspector-General in 1883 after Brandis stepped down. Schlich helped to establish the journal ''[[Indian Forester]]'' in 1874, and became the founding director of the first [[forestry]] school in England at [[Royal Indian Engineering College|Cooper's Hill]] in 1885.<ref>Burley, Jeffery, et al. 2009. "A History of Forestry at Oxford", ''British Scholar'', Vol. 1, No. 2., pp.236-261. Accessed: May 6, 2012.</ref> He authored the five-volume ''Manual of Forestry'' (1889–96) on [[silviculture]], [[forest management]], [[forest protection]], and forest utilization, which became the standard and enduring textbook for forestry students.

===Conservation in the United States===
[[File:Yellowstone 1871b.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden|F. V. Hayden]]'s map of [[Yellowstone National Park]], 1871]]
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The American movement received its inspiration from 19th century works that exalted the inherent value of nature, quite apart from human usage. Author [[Henry David Thoreau]] (1817–1862) made key philosophical contributions that exalted nature. Thoreau was interested in peoples' relationship with nature and studied this by living close to nature in a simple life. He published his experiences in the book ''[[Walden]],'' which argued that people should become intimately close with nature.<ref>{{Citation|author=Thoreau, Henry David|title=Walden|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1189910652|oclc=1189910652|access-date=2022-02-26}}</ref> The ideas of [[Dietrich Brandis|Sir Brandis]], [[Sir William P.D. Schlich]] and [[Carl A. Schenck]] were also very influential—[[Gifford Pinchot]], the first chief of the [[USDA Forest Service]], relied heavily upon Brandis' advice for introducing professional forest management in the U.S. and on how to structure the Forest Service.<ref>[http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/Golden_jubilee_vol/articles/H_468%20(Brett%20M%20Benet).htm America has been the context for both the origins of conservation history and its modern form, environmental history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313144333/http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/Golden_jubilee_vol/articles/H_468%20%28Brett%20M%20Benet%29.htm |date=2012-03-13 }}. Asiaticsociety.org.bd. Retrieved on 2011-09-01.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Rawat |first=Ajay Singh |title=Indian Forestry: A Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IZYFP15OscC&pg=PA85|year=1993|publisher=Indus Publishing|pages=85–88|isbn=9788185182780 }}</ref> In 1864 [[Abraham Lincoln]] established the [[Yosemite National Park|federally preserved Yosemite]], before the first [[national park]] was created ([[Yellowstone National Park]]).

Both conservationists and preservationists appeared in political debates during the [[Progressive Era]] (the 1890s–early 1920s). There were three main positions.

* '''Laissez-faire:''' The laissez-faire position held that owners of private property, including lumber and mining companies, should be allowed to do anything they wished on their properties. Environmental protection therefore becomes their choice.<ref>Samuel P. Hays, ''Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920'' (1959)</ref> Businesses are pressured somewhat by the incentive of occupational preservation which requires that they not wholly destroy or consume the resources they rely upon. Said businesses need to innovate or pivot in the event that the exhaustion of a resource is imminent.
* '''Conservationists:''' The conservationists, led by future President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and his close ally [[George Bird Grinnell]], were motivated by the wanton waste that was taking place at the hand of market forces, including logging and hunting.<ref>Benjamin Redekop, "Embodying the Story: The Conservation Leadership of Theodore Roosevelt" in ''Leadership'' (2015). DOI: 10.1177/1742715014546875.  [http://cnu.edu/leadershipstudies/faculty/pdf/redekop-embodying_the_story_theodore_roosevelts_conservation_leadership.pdf online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114045519/http://cnu.edu/leadershipstudies/faculty/pdf/redekop-embodying_the_story_theodore_roosevelts_conservation_leadership.pdf |date=2016-01-14 }}</ref> This practice resulted in placing a large number of North American game species on the edge of extinction. Roosevelt believed that the laissez-faire approach of the U.S. Government was too wasteful and inefficient. In any case, they noted, most of the natural resources in the western states were already owned by the federal government. The best course of action, they argued, was a long-term plan devised by national experts to maximize the long-term economic benefits of natural resources. To accomplish the mission, Roosevelt and Grinnell formed the [[Boone and Crockett Club]], whose members were some of the best minds and influential men of the day. Its contingency of conservationists, scientists, politicians, and intellectuals became Roosevelt's closest advisers during his march to preserve wildlife and habitat across North America.<ref>{{cite web|title=Archives of the Boone and Crockett Club|url=http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16013coll13/id/1220/rec/1|access-date=2014-04-06|archive-date=2014-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407144539/http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16013coll13/id/1220/rec/1|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* '''Preservationists:''' Preservationists, led by [[John Muir]] (1838–1914), argued that the conservation policies were not strong enough to protect the interest of the natural world because they continued to focus on the natural world as a source of economic production.

The debate between conservation and preservation reached its peak in the public debates over the construction of California's [[O'Shaughnessy Dam (California)|Hetch Hetchy dam]] in [[Yosemite National Park]] which supplies the water supply of San Francisco. Muir, leading the [[Sierra Club]], declared that the valley must be preserved for the sake of its beauty: "No holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man."

President [[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] put conservationist issues high on the national agenda.<ref>Douglas G. Brinkley, ''The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America'' (2009)</ref> He worked with all the major figures of the movement, especially his chief advisor on the matter, [[Gifford Pinchot]] and was deeply committed to conserving natural resources. He encouraged the [[Newlands Reclamation Act]] of 1902 to promote federal construction of dams to irrigate small farms and placed {{convert|230|e6acre|mi2 km2}} under federal protection. Roosevelt set aside more federal land for [[national park]]s and [[nature preserve]]s than all of his predecessors combined.<ref>W. Todd Benson, ''President Theodore Roosevelt's Conservations Legacy'' (2003)</ref>
[[File:TR-Enviro.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Roosevelt was a leader in conservation, fighting to end the waste of natural resources.]]

Roosevelt established the [[United States Forest Service]], signed into law the creation of five national parks, and signed the year 1906 [[Antiquities Act]], under which he proclaimed 18 new [[National monument (United States)|national monuments]]. He also established the first 51 [[bird reserve]]s, four [[game preserve]]s, and 150 [[United States National Forest|national forests]], including [[Shoshone National Forest]], the nation's first. The area of the United States that he placed under public protection totals approximately {{convert|230000000|acre|km2}}.

[[Gifford Pinchot]] had been appointed by McKinley as chief of Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture. In 1905, his department gained control of the national forest reserves. Pinchot promoted private use (for a fee) under federal supervision. In 1907, Roosevelt designated {{convert|16|e6acre|km2}} of new national forests just minutes before a deadline.<ref>Char Miller, ''Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot'' (2013)</ref>

In May 1908, Roosevelt sponsored the [[Conference of Governors]] held in the White House, with a focus on natural resources and their most efficient use. Roosevelt delivered the opening address: "Conservation as a National Duty".

In 1903 Roosevelt toured the Yosemite Valley with [[John Muir]], who had a very different view of conservation, and tried to minimize commercial use of water resources and forests. Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the [[Mariposa Grove]] and Yosemite Valley to the federal government.<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 26, Chap. 1263, pp. 650-52. "An act to set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California as forest reservations." [H.R. 12187]|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrvl&fileName=vl044//amrvlvl044.db&recNum=1&itemLink=r?ammem/consrvbib:@FIELD%28NUMBER%28vl044+v1512%29%29&linkText=0|work=Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref> While Muir wanted nature preserved for its own sake, Roosevelt subscribed to Pinchot's formulation, "to make the forest produce the largest amount of whatever crop or service will be most useful, and keep on producing it for generation after generation of men and trees."<ref>Gifford Pinchot, ''Breaking New Ground,'' (1947) p. 32.</ref>

Theodore Roosevelt's view on conservationism remained dominant for decades; [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] authorised the building of many large-scale dams and water projects, as well as the expansion of the National Forest System to buy out sub-marginal farms. In 1937, the [[Pittman–Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act]] was signed into law, providing funding for state agencies to carry out their conservation efforts.
[[File:Theodore Roosevelt with dead lion.jpg|thumb|Theodore Roosevelt with trophy killing]]

====Since 1970====
Environmental reemerged on the national agenda in 1970, with Republican [[Richard Nixon]] playing a major role, especially with his creation of the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]]. The debates over the public lands and environmental politics played a supporting role in the decline of liberalism and the rise of modern environmentalism. Although Americans consistently rank environmental issues as "important", polling data indicates that in the voting booth voters rank the environmental issues low relative to other political concerns.

The growth of the Republican party's political power in the inland West (apart from the Pacific coast) was facilitated by the rise of popular opposition to public lands reform. Successful Democrats in the inland West and Alaska typically take more conservative positions on environmental issues than Democrats from the Coastal states. Conservatives drew on new organizational networks of think tanks, industry groups, and citizen-oriented organizations, and they began to deploy new strategies that affirmed the rights of individuals to their property, protection of extraction rights, to hunt and recreate, and to pursue happiness unencumbered by the federal government at the expense of resource conservation.<ref>* Turner, James Morton, "The Specter of Environmentalism": Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right. ''The Journal of American History'' 96.1 (2009): 123-47 [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/turner.html online at History Cooperative] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703095241/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/turner.html |date=2009-07-03 }}</ref>

In 2019, convivial conservation was an idea proposed by Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher. Convivial conservation draws on social movements and concepts like [[environmental justice]] and structural change to create a post-capitalist approach to conservation.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183pdh2|title=Nature Inc.|date=2014-05-29|publisher=University of Arizona Press|doi=10.2307/j.ctt183pdh2|isbn=978-0-8165-9885-4|editor-last=Büscher|editor-first=Bram|editor-last2=Dressler|editor-first2=Wolfram|editor-last3=Fletcher|editor-first3=Robert}}</ref> Convivial conservation rejects both human-nature dichotomies and capitalistic political economies. Built on a politics of equity, structural change and  environmental  justice, convivial conservation is considered a radical theory as it focuses on the structural political-economy of modern nation states and the need to create structural change.<ref name=":4">Büscher, B. and Fletcher, R., 2019. Towards convivial conservation. ''Conservation & Society'', ''17''(3), pp.283-296. </ref> Convivial conservation creates a more integrated approach which reconfigures the nature-human configuration to create a world in which humans are recognized as a part of nature. The emphasis on nature as for and by humans creates a human responsibility to care for the environment as a way of caring for themselves. It also redefines nature as not only being pristine and untouched, but cultivated by humans in everyday formats. The theory is a long-term process of structural change to move away from capitalist valuation in favor of a system emphasizing everyday and local living.<ref name=":4" /> Convivial conservation creates a nature which includes humans rather than excluding them from the necessity of conservation. While other conservation theories integrate some of the elements of convivial conservation, none move away from both dichotomies and capitalist valuation principles.

===== The five elements of convivial conservation =====
Source:<ref name=":4" />

# The promotion of nature for, to and by humans
# The movement away from the concept of conservation as saving only nonhuman nature
# Emphasis on the long-term democratic engagement with nature rather than elite access and tourism,
# The movement away from the spectacle of nature and instead focusing on the mundane ‘everyday nature’
# The democratic management of nature, with nature as commons and in context

=== Racism and the Conservation Movement ===
The early years of the environmental and conservation movements were rooted in the safeguarding of game to support the recreation activities of elite white men, such as [[Trophy hunting|sport hunting]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Hellegers |first=Desiree |date=December 2017 |title=The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege and Environmental Protection by Dorceta E. Taylor |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/cjh.ach.52.3.rev22 |journal=Canadian Journal of History |language=en |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=609–611 |doi=10.3138/cjh.ach.52.3.rev22 |issn=0008-4107|url-access=subscription }}</ref> This led to an economy to support and perpetuate these activities as well as the continued wilderness conservation to support the corporate interests supplying the hunters with the equipment needed for their sport.<ref name=":5" /> Game parks in England and the United States allowed wealthy hunters and fishermen to [[overhunting|deplete wildlife]], while hunting by Indigenous groups, laborers and the working class, and poor citizens - especially for the express use of sustenance - was vigorously monitored.<ref name=":5" /> Scholars have shown that the establishment of the [[U.S. national park]]s, while setting aside land for preservation, was also a continuation of preserving the land for the recreation and enjoyment of elite white hunters and nature enthusiasts.<ref name=":5" />

While Theodore Roosevelt was one of the leading activists for the conservation movement in the United States, he also believed that the threats to the natural world were equally threats to white Americans. Roosevelt and his contemporaries held the belief that the cities, industries and factories that were overtaking the wilderness and threatening the native plants and animals were also consuming and threatening the racial vigor that they believed white Americans held which made them superior.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |author=Powell, Miles A. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/973532814 |title=Vanishing America : species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-674-97295-7 |oclc=973532814}}</ref> Roosevelt was a big believer that white male virility depended on wildlife for its vigor, and that, consequently, depleting wildlife would result in a racially weaker nation.<ref name=":2" /> This lead Roosevelt to support the passing of many immigration restrictions, [[eugenics]] legislations and wildlife preservation laws.<ref name=":2" /> For instance, Roosevelt established the first national parks through the Antiquities Act of 1906 while also endorsing the removal of Indigenous Americans from their tribal lands within the parks.<ref name=":6">Purdy, Jedediah (August 13, 2015). "Environmentalism's Racist History". ''The New Yorker''.</ref> This move was promoted and endorsed by other leaders of the conservation movement, including [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], a leading landscape architect, conservationist, and supporter of the national park system, and [[Gifford Pinchot]], a leading eugenicist and conservationist.<ref name=":6" /> Furthering the economic exploitation of the environment and national parks for wealthy whites was the beginning of [[ecotourism]] in the parks, which included allowing some Indigenous Americans to remain so that the tourists could get what was to be considered the full "wilderness experience".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Merchant |first=Carolyn |date=2003-07-01 |title=Shades of Darkness: Race and Environmental History |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/3986200 |journal=Environmental History |language=en |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=380–394 |doi=10.2307/3986200 |jstor=3986200 |issn=1084-5453|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Another long-term supporter, partner, and inspiration to Roosevelt, [[Madison Grant]], was a well known American eugenicist and conservationist.<ref name=":2" /> Grant worked alongside Roosevelt in the American conservation movement and was even secretary and president of the Boone and Crockett Club.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Peter. |first=Spiro, Jonathan |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/227929377 |title=Defending the master race : conservation, eugenics, and the legacy of Madison Grant |date=2009 |publisher=University of Vermont Press |isbn=978-1-58465-715-6 |oclc=227929377}}</ref> In 1916, Grant published the book "The Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History", which based its premise on eugenics and outlined a hierarchy of races, with white, "Nordic" men at the top, and all other races below.<ref name=":3" /> The German translation of this book was used by Nazi Germany as the source for many of their beliefs<ref name=":3" /> and was even proclaimed by Hitler to be his "Bible".<ref name=":6" />

One of the first established conservation agencies in the United States is the [[National Audubon Society]]. Founded in 1905, its priority was to protect and conserve various waterbird species.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=2015-01-09 |title=The History of Audubon |url=https://www.audubon.org/about/history-audubon-and-waterbird-conservation |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Audubon |language=en}}</ref> However, the first state-level Audubon group was created in 1896 by Harriet Hemenway and Minna B. Hall to convince women to refrain from buying hats made with bird feathers- a common practice at the time.<ref name=":02" /> The organization is named after [[John Audubon]], a naturalist and legendary bird painter.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |date=2020-07-31 |title=The Myth of John James Audubon |url=https://www.audubon.org/news/the-myth-john-james-audubon |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Audubon |language=en}}</ref> Audubon was also a slaveholder who also included many [[racist]] tales in his books.<ref name=":12" /> Despite his views of racial inequality, Audubon did find black and Indigenous people to be scientifically useful, often using their local knowledge in his books and relying on them to collect specimens for him.<ref name=":12" />

The ideology of the conservation movement in Germany paralleled that of the U.S. and England.<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Landry |first=Marc |date=February 2010 |title=How Brown were the Conservationists? Naturism, Conservation, and National Socialism, 1900–1945 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0960777309990208/type/journal_article |journal=Contemporary European History |language=en |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=83–93 |doi=10.1017/S0960777309990208 |issn=0960-7773|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Early German naturalists of the 20th century turned to the wilderness to escape the industrialization of cities. However, many of these early conservationists became part of and influenced the [[NSDAP|Nazi party]]. Like elite and influential Americans of the early 20th century, they embraced eugenics and racism and promoted the idea that Nordic people are [[White supremacy|superior]].<ref name=":7" />

=== Conservation in Costa Rica ===
[[File:Areas Conservacion CR.svg|thumb|Figure 1. Costa Rica divided into different areas of conservation]]{{Excerpt|Conservation in Costa Rica}}

=== World Wide Fund for Nature ===
{{Main|World Wide Fund for Nature}}

{{Cquote|quote=You know, when we first set up WWF, our objective was to save endangered species from extinction. But we have failed completely; we haven't managed to save a single one. If only we had put all that money into condoms, we might have done some good.|author=[[Sir Peter Scott]], Founder of the [[World Wide Fund for Nature]]|source=''Cosmos Magazine'', 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.cosmosmagazine.com/opinion/a-plague-people/|title=A plague of people|work=[[Cosmos (magazine)|Cosmos]]|date=13 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106130856/http://archive.cosmosmagazine.com/opinion/a-plague-people/|archive-date=6 November 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>}}

The [[World Wide Fund for Nature]] (WWF) is an [[Internationalism (politics)|international]] [[non-governmental organization]] founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of [[human impact on the environment]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Troëng|first1=Sebastian|last2=Rankin|first2=Eddy|date=2005-01-01|title=Long-term conservation efforts contribute to positive green turtle Chelonia mydas nesting trend at Tortuguero, Costa Rica|journal=Biological Conservation|language=en|volume=121|issue=1|pages=111–116|doi=10.1016/j.biocon.2004.04.014|issn=0006-3207}}</ref> It was formerly named the "World Wildlife Fund", which remains its official name in [[Canada]] and the [[United States]].<ref name=":0" />

WWF is the world's largest [[environmental organization|conservation organization]] with over five million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries, supporting around 1,300 conservation and environmental projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/project/|title=WWF conservation projects around the world}}</ref>  They have invested over $1 billion in more than 12,000 conservation initiatives since 1995.<ref name="WorldWildLife">{{cite web|title=WWF - Endangered Species Conservation|url=https://www.worldwildlife.org|website=World Wildlife Fund|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref> WWF is a [[Foundation (nonprofit)|foundation]] with 55% of funding from individuals and bequests, 19% from government sources (such as the [[World Bank]], [[Department for International Development|DFID]], [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]]) and 8% from corporations in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/organization/|title=How is WWF run?|access-date=21 July 2011}}</ref><ref name="WWF-INT Annual Review">{{cite book |title = WWFN-International Annual Review|year = 2014|publisher = World Wide Fund for Nature|url = http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/ar2014_v13_final_lr_sp.pdf|access-date = 17 September 2015|page = 37}}</ref>

WWF aims to "stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wwf.panda.org/mission_principles_goals.cfm |title=WWF's Mission, Guiding Principles and Goals |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=WWF |access-date=2019-01-13 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113210818/https://wwf.panda.org/mission_principles_goals.cfm| archive-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> The [[Living Planet Report]] is published every two years by WWF since 1998; it is based on a [[Living Planet Index]] and [[ecological footprint]] calculation.<ref name=":0" /> In addition, WWF has launched several notable worldwide campaigns including [[Earth Hour]] and [[Debt-for-Nature Swap]], and its current work is organized around these six areas: food, climate, freshwater, wildlife, forests, and oceans.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="WorldWildLife" />

==== "Conservation Far" approach ====
Institutions such as the WWF have historically been the cause of the displacement and divide between Indigenous populations and the lands they inhabit. The reason is the organization's historically colonial, paternalistic, and neoliberal approaches to conservation. Claus, in her article "Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa", expands on this approach, called "conservation far", in which access to lands is open to external foreign entities, such as researchers or tourists, but prohibited to local populations. The conservation initiatives are therefore taking place "far" away. This entity is largely unaware of the customs and values held by those within the territory surrounding nature and their role within it.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Claus |first=C. Anne |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1156432505 |title=Drawing the sea near : Satoumi and coral reef conservation in Okinawa |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-4529-5947-4 |location=Minneapolis |oclc=1156432505}}</ref>

==== "Conservation near" approach ====
In Japan, the town of Shiraho had traditional ways of tending to nature that were lost due to colonization and militarization by the United States. The return to traditional sustainability practices constituted a “conservation near” approach. This engages those near in proximity to the lands in the conservation efforts and holds them accountable for their direct effects on its preservation. While conservation-far drills visuals and sight as being the main interaction medium between people and the environment, conservation near includes a hands-on, full sensory experience permitted by conservation-near methodologies.<ref name=":1" /> An emphasis on observation only stems from a deeper association with intellect and observation. The alternative to this is more of a bodily or "primitive" consciousness, which is associated with lower-intelligence and people of color. A new, integrated approach to conservation is being investigated in recent years by institutions such as WWF.<ref name=":1" /> The socionatural relationships centered on the interactions based in reciprocity and empathy, making conservation efforts being accountable to the local community and ways of life, changing in response to values, ideals, and beliefs of the locals. Japanese seascapes are often integral to the identity of the residents and includes historical memories and spiritual engagements which need to be recognized and considered.<ref name=":1" /> The involvement of communities gives residents a stake in the issue, leading to a long-term solution which emphasizes sustainable resource usage and the empowerment of the communities. Conservation efforts are able to take into consideration cultural values rather than the foreign ideals that are often imposed by foreign activists.

==Evidence-based conservation==
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== Areas of concern ==
[[File:Suojelutaulu.JPG|thumb|A conservation area's sign in the [[Finland|Finnish]] forest. It says, "A conservation area protected by law".]]
[[Deforestation]] and [[Human overpopulation|overpopulation]] are issues affecting all regions of the world. The consequent destruction of wildlife habitat has prompted the creation of conservation groups in other countries, some founded by local hunters who have witnessed declining wildlife populations first hand. Also, it was highly important for the conservation movement to solve problems of living conditions in the cities and the overpopulation of such places.

=== Boreal forest and the Arctic ===
The idea of incentive conservation is a modern one but its practice has clearly defended some of the sub Arctic wildernesses and the wildlife in those regions for thousands of years, especially by indigenous peoples such as the Evenk, Yakut, Sami, Inuit and Cree. The fur trade and hunting by these peoples have preserved these regions for thousands of years. Ironically, the pressure now upon them comes from non-renewable resources such as oil, sometimes to make synthetic clothing which is advocated as a humane substitute for fur. (See [[Raccoon dog]] for case study of the conservation of an animal through fur trade.) Similarly, in the case of the beaver, hunting and fur trade were thought to bring about the animal's demise, when in fact they were an integral part of its conservation. For many years children's books stated and still do, that the decline in the beaver population was due to the fur trade. In reality however, the decline in beaver numbers was because of habitat destruction and deforestation, as well as its continued persecution as a pest (it causes flooding). In Cree lands, however, where the population valued the animal for meat and fur, it continued to thrive. The Inuit defend their relationship with the seal in response to outside critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icc.gl/UserFiles/File/sealskin/2006-03-07_icc_saelskind_pressemeddelse_eng.pdf|title=Inuit Ask Europeans to Support Its Seal Hunt and Way of Life|date=6 March 2006|access-date=12 July 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070628204105/http://www.icc.gl/UserFiles/File/sealskin/2006-03-07_icc_saelskind_pressemeddelse_eng.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 28 June 2007}}</ref>

=== Latin America (Bolivia) ===
The [[Izoceño people|Izoceño]]-[[Guaraní people|Guaraní]] of [[Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia)|Santa Cruz Department]], [[Bolivia]], is a tribe of hunters who were influential in establishing the Capitania del Alto y Bajo Isoso (CABI). CABI promotes economic growth and survival of the Izoceno people while discouraging the rapid destruction of habitat within Bolivia's [[Gran Chaco]]. They are responsible for the creation of the 34,000 square kilometre Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Area (KINP). The KINP protects the most biodiverse portion of the Gran Chaco, an ecoregion shared with Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. In 1996, the [[Wildlife Conservation Society]] joined forces with CABI to institute wildlife and hunting monitoring programs in 23 Izoceño communities. The partnership combines traditional beliefs and local knowledge with the political and administrative tools needed to effectively manage habitats. The programs rely solely on voluntary participation by local hunters who perform self-monitoring techniques and keep records of their hunts. The information obtained by the hunters participating in the program has provided CABI with important data required to make educated decisions about the use of the land. Hunters have been willing participants in this program because of pride in their traditional activities, encouragement by their communities and expectations of benefits to the area.

=== Africa (Botswana) ===
In order to discourage illegal South African hunting parties and ensure future local use and sustainability, indigenous hunters in [[Botswana]] began lobbying for and implementing conservation practices in the 1960s. The Fauna Preservation Society of Ngamiland (FPS) was formed in 1962 by the husband and wife team: Robert Kay and June Kay, environmentalists working in conjunction with the Batawana tribes to preserve wildlife habitat.

The FPS promotes habitat conservation and provides local education for preservation of wildlife. Conservation initiatives were met with strong opposition from the Botswana government because of the monies tied to big-game hunting. In 1963, BaTawanga Chiefs and tribal hunter/adventurers in conjunction with the FPS founded [[Moremi Wildlife Reserve|Moremi National Park and Wildlife Refuge]], the first area to be set aside by tribal people rather than governmental forces. Moremi National Park is home to a variety of wildlife, including lions, giraffes, elephants, buffalo, zebra, cheetahs and antelope, and covers an area of 3,000 square kilometers. Most of the groups involved with establishing this protected land were involved with hunting and were motivated by their personal observations of declining wildlife and habitat.

== See also ==
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* [[Air pollution in the United States]]
* [[Australian Grains Genebank]]
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* [[Conservation ethic]]
* [[Ecology]]
* [[Ecology movement]]
* [[Energy conservation]]
* [[Environmental history]]
* [[Environmental history of the United States]]
* [[Environmental movement]]
* [[Environmental protection]]
* [[Environmentalism]]
* ''[[Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920]]''
* [[Factor 10]]
* [[Forest protection]]
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* [[History of environmentalism in Germany]]
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* [[National Park Service|U.S. National Park Service]]
* [[Water conservation]]
* [[Wetland conservation]]
* [[Wildlife conservation]]
* [[Wildlife management]]
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==References==
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== Further reading ==
===World===
* Barton, Gregory A.  ''Empire, Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism,'' (2002), covers British Empire
* Clover, Charles.  ''The End of the Line: How overfishing is changing the world and what we eat''. (2004) Ebury Press, London. {{ISBN|0-09-189780-7}}
* Haq, Gary, and Alistair Paul. ''Environmentalism since 1945'' (Routledge, 2013).
* Jones, Eric L. "The History of Natural Resource Exploitation in the Western World," ''Research in Economic History,'' 1991 Supplement 6, pp 235–252
* McNeill, John R. ''Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century'' (2000).

===Regional studies===
====Africa====
* Adams, Jonathan S.; McShane, Thomas O. ''Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation without Illusion'' (1992) 266p; covers 1900 to 1980s
* Anderson, David; Grove, Richard. ''Conservation in Africa: People, Policies & Practice'' (1988), 355pp
* Bolaane, Maitseo.  "Chiefs, Hunters & Adventurers: The Foundation of the Okavango/Moremi National Park, Botswana".  ''Journal of Historical Geography.'' 31.2 (Apr. 2005): 241–259.
*  Carruthers, Jane. "Africa: Histories, Ecologies, and Societies," Environment and History, 10 (2004), pp.&nbsp;379–406;
* Showers, Kate B. ''Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho'' (2005) 346pp

====Asia-Pacific====
* Bolton, Geoffrey. ''Spoils and Spoilers: Australians Make Their Environment, 1788-1980'' (1981) 197pp
* Economy, Elizabeth. ''The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future'' (2010)
* Elvin, Mark. ''The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China''  (2006)
* Grove, Richard H.; Damodaran, Vinita Jain; Sangwan, Satpal. ''Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia'' (1998) 1036pp
* Johnson, Erik W., Saito, Yoshitaka, and Nishikido, Makoto. "Organizational Demography of Japanese Environmentalism," ''Sociological Inquiry,'' Nov 2009, Vol. 79 Issue 4, pp 481–504
* [[Valmik Thapar|Thapar, Valmik]]. ''Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent'' (1998) 288pp

====Latin America====
* Boyer, Christopher. ''Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico''. Duke University Press (2015)
* [[Warren Dean|Dean, Warren]]. ''With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest'' (1997)
* Evans, S. ''The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica''. University of Texas Press. (1999)
* Funes Monzote, Reinaldo. ''From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492'' (2008)
* Melville, Elinor G. K. ''A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico'' (1994) 
* Miller, Shawn William. ''An Environmental History of Latin America'' (2007)
* Noss, Andrew and Imke Oetting.  "Hunter Self-Monitoring by the Izoceño -Guarani in the Bolivian Chaco".  ''Biodiversity & Conservation''. 14.11 (2005): 2679–2693.
* Simonian, Lane. ''Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico'' (1995) 326pp
* Wakild, Emily. ''An Unexpected Environment: National Park Creation, Resource Custodianship, and the Mexican Revolution''. University of Arizona Press (2011).

====Europe and Russia====
* [[Lorenzo Arnone Sipari|Arnone Sipari, Lorenzo]], ''Scritti scelti di Erminio Sipari sul Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo (1922–1933)'' (2011), 360pp.
* Barca, Stefania, and Ana Delicado. "Anti-nuclear mobilisation and environmentalism in Europe: A view from Portugal (1976–1986)." ''Environment and History'' 22.4 (2016): 497–520. [https://www.academia.edu/download/41270815/advance_access.pdf online]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
* Bonhomme, Brian. ''Forests, Peasants and Revolutionaries: Forest Conservation & Organization in Soviet Russia, 1917–1929'' (2005) 252pp.
* Cioc, Mark. ''The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000'' (2002).
* Dryzek, John S., et al. ''Green states and social movements: environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway'' (Oxford UP, 2003).
* Jehlicka, Petr. "Environmentalism in Europe: an east-west comparison." in ''Social change and political transformation'' (Routledge, 2018) pp.&nbsp;112–131.
* Simmons, I.G. ''An Environmental History of Great Britain: From 10,000 Years Ago to the Present'' (2001).
* Uekotter, Frank. ''The greenest nation?: A new history of German environmentalism'' (MIT Press, 2014).
* Weiner, Douglas R. ''Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia'' (2000) 324pp; covers 1917 to 1939.

====United States====
* Bates, J. Leonard.  "Fulfilling American Democracy: The Conservation Movement, 1907 to 1921", ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review,'' (1957), 44#1 pp.&nbsp;29–57. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1898667 in JSTOR]
* Brinkley, Douglas G. ''The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America,'' (2009) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060565314/  excerpt and text search]
* Cawley, R. McGreggor. ''Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics'' (1993), on conservatives
* Flippen, J. Brooks. ''Nixon and the Environment'' (2000).
* Hays, Samuel P. ''Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955–1985'' (1987), the standard scholarly history
** Hays, Samuel P. ''A History of Environmental Politics since 1945'' (2000), shorter standard history
* Hays, Samuel P.  ''Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency'' (1959), on Progressive Era.
* King, Judson. ''The Conservation Fight, From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority'' (2009)
* Nash, Roderick. ''Wilderness and the American Mind,'' (3rd ed. 1982), the standard intellectual history
* {{Cite EB1922 |last=Pinchot |first=Gifford |author-link=Gifford Pinchot |wstitle=Conservation Policy |short=x}}
* Rothmun, Hal K. ''The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States since 1945'' (1998)
* Scheffer, Victor B. ''The Shaping of Environmentalism in America'' (1991).
* Sellers, Christopher. ''Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America'' (2012)
* Strong, Douglas H.  ''Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists.'' (1988) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8516594 online edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201192945/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8516594 |date=2007-12-01 }}, good biographical studies of the major leaders
* Taylor, Dorceta E. ''The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection''  (Duke U.P. 2016) x, 486 pp. 
* Turner, James Morton, "The Specter of Environmentalism": Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right. ''The Journal of American History'' 96.1 (2009): 123-47 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090703095241/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.1/turner.html online at History Cooperative]
* Vogel, David. ''California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader'' (2018) 280 pp  [http://eh.net/?s=vogel+david online review]

===Historiography===
* Cioc, Mark, [[Björn-Ola Linnér]], and Matt Osborn, "Environmental History Writing in Northern Europe," ''Environmental History,'' 5 (2000), pp.&nbsp;396–406
* Bess, Michael, Mark Cioc, and James Sievert, "Environmental History Writing in Southern Europe," ''Environmental History,'' 5 (2000), pp.&nbsp;545–56;
* Coates, Peter. "Emerging from the Wilderness (or, from Redwoods to Bananas): Recent Environmental History in the United States and the Rest of the Americas," Environment and History, 10 (2004), pp.&nbsp;407–38
* Hay, Peter. ''Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought'' (2002), standard scholarly history [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0253215110/ excerpt and text search]
* McNeill, John R. "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History," ''History and Theory,'' 42 (2003), pp.&nbsp;5–43.
* Robin, Libby, and Tom Griffiths, "Environmental History in Australasia," ''Environment and History,'' 10 (2004), pp.&nbsp;439–74
* Worster, Donald, ed. ''The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History'' (1988)

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080830075158/http://www.teara.govt.nz/TheBush/Conservation/ConservationAHistory/en A history of conservation in New Zealand]
* [http://nfb.ca/film/For_Future_Generations/ ''For Future Generations'', a Canadian documentary on conservation and national parks]

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