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the conservation movement can be traced back to John Evelyn work, a Discourse of Fores-trees and the propaganda of timbers. Still is one of the most influential texts about forestry.
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The Madras Board of Revenue starts local conservation efforts, headed by Alexander Gibson, a botanist who systematically adopts a forest conservation program based on scientific principles. This would be the first case of state management of forests in the world.
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American philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau writes Walden, which explores living surrounded by nature. The book would come to inspire the environmentalist movement.
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British Rule introduces the first permanent and large-scale forest conservation program in the world in India. This model soon would spread to other colonies, as well the United States.
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British India bans the use of shifting cultivation
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The Britain's Alkali Acts are passed to regulate the deleterious air pollution (gaseous Hydroelectric acid) given off by the Leblanc process used to produce soda ash.
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The British Commons Preservation Society is formed as a movement with the purpose of protecting rural preservation against the encroachments of industrialization.
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The Sea Birds Preservation Act is passed by the British parliament. The passage is considered one of the first pieces of parliamentary legislation anywhere in the world to protect wildlife, and the first to offer birds protection on the United Kingdom.
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American marine biologist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, calling attention to the threat of toxic chemicals to people and the environment. The book would prove to be a huge influence on environmental policies across the world, and Carson would be regarded as one of the greatest influences in the history of the environmental movement.
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UNESCO organizes the first Biosphere Conference. Experts from around the world gather to discuss global environmental problems, including pollution, resource loss, and wetlands destruction.
