• The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough & Jonnie Hughes
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change by Dieter Helm
  • The Best Conservation Books of 2021 - Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Best Conservation Books of 2021, recommended by Charlotte Smith

Many of us are increasingly alarmed at the damage human beings have done—and continue to do—to the natural world and would love to be better informed about what we need to do to protect our precious environment. Fortunately, every year, the Wainwright Prize picks out the best writing on global conservation—books that are not only informative but highly readable. Here, British journalist Charlotte Smith, chair of the judging panel, talks us through the books that made the 2021 shortlist and why it’s worth reading all of them.