conservation

Under Tsar Nicholas II, Barguzinsky Zapovednik becomes Russia’s first nature reserve.

This book is the first to identify the population of each known species in the United States.

A first attempt at including natural assets into Italian art preservation legislation.

In his 1901 book, American conservationist and nature writer John Muir promoted a transcendentalist idea of national parks as wild places of inspirational beauty.

The first bird protection organization in the United States is founded in Boston.

The Touring Club Italiano is the largest Italian association for the promotion of tourism.

To protect the recently created Yosemite National Park against exploitation, John Muir founds the Sierra Club as the first grassroots environmental organization in the United States.

The Club Alpino Italiano, a gentlemen’s hiking group, was founded.

Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden is considered one of the most important works of nature writing and became highly influential for the environmental movement.

An act nationalizing private forests in order to protect them ended up backfiring.