All Previous Winners
Flick through all the winning books of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation and click through to learn more about each author

2022 Winner
Dan Saladino
Eating to Extinction
Drawing on a unique global archive of the world’s most endangered foods, Last Harvest is a thrilling and unexpected journey through the history of humankind’s relationship with food, and an urgent book for our times.

2021 Winner
Merlin Sheldrake
Entangled Life
Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.

2020 Winner
Benedict Macdonald
Rebirding
Britain has all the space it needs for an epic return of its wildlife. Only six percent of our country is built upon. Contrary to popular myth, large areas of our countryside are not productively farmed but remain deserts of opportunity for both wildlife and jobs. It is time to turn things around. Praised as ‘visionary’ by conservationists and landowners alike, Rebirding sets out a compelling manifesto for restoring Britain’s wildlife, rewilding its species and restoring rural jobs – to the benefit of all.