Here is a list of excellent reading on a variey of topics from conservation, culture, climate, human/ wildlife conflict and scope of life issues.
NON-FICTION
Conservation Refugees and Losing Ground, by Mark Dowie
Where the Wild Things Were, by William Stolzenburg
Famine that Kills, by Alex de Waal
Ghosts of Tsavo, by Phillip Caputo
The Trouble with Testosterone, by Robert Sapolsky
Guns, Germs and Steel, Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond
Africa: Biography of a Continent, by John Reader
Blood Diamonds, by Greg CampbellEnd of the Game, by Peter Beard (a photographic journal
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, by Philiop Gourevitch
BIOGRAPHY
Scribbling the Cat and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller
Cry of the Kalahari and Secrets of the Savanna, by Mark and Delia Owens
Grains of Golden Sand, by Delfi Messenger
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
FICTION
Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith (series)
ENVRIONMENTAL
Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, by Bjorn Lomborg
Why Elephants Have Big Ears, by Chris Lavers (biogeography)
Killing for Conservation, Wildlife Policy in Zimbabwe, by Rosaleen Duffy
Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, edited by Stan Stevens
Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender and the State in Community Based Conservation, edited by Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibsom
People and Predators: From Conflict to Coexistence, edited by Nian Fascione, Amimee Delach and Martin. E. Smith