This course reviews anthropological monographs and other works pertaining to international biodiversity and forest conservation projects. It also covers topics in environmental anthropology including political ecology, symbolic ecology, historical ecology, and ethnoprimatology. It asks questions about the historical emergence of international environmental conservation, the intellectual history of indigenous and/versus scientific knowledge, and also about methods in interdisciplinary and cross-subfield work, or conservation anthropologies. Key texts include Christine Walley’s Rough Waters, Hugh Raffles’s In Amazonia, Anna Tsing’s Friction, Paige West’s Conservation is our Government Now, Celia Lowe’s Wild Profusion, and others.