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I haven't found many scholarly papers on video games and natural heritage, so my references are mostly from non-specific game studies, natural heritage, and environment education papers.However, there are a few interesting papers and books that look at the intersection between nature and video games/digital media!Here is my favorite list (so far), with some comments:Chang, A. Y. 2012. «&#160;Back to the Virtual Farm: Gleaning the Agriculture-Management Game&#160;». Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Vol. 19, n°2, p.&#160;237‑252.Great paper and a must-read! It is a critical analysis of agricultural representations in Farmville, considered capitalistic and dangerous for ecological awareness. This paper questions realism and authenticity in terms of simulation than can be compared to historical games. One criticism: very American-centric.Smith, Bradon. 2017. «&#160;Resources, Scenarios, Agency: Environmental Computer Games&#160;». Ecozon@. Vol. 8, p.&#160;103‑120.The paper defend that "god games" (Sim City, Civilization) support the American myth of second creation with wild abundant world to be colonized, and thus are anti-ecological. Minecraft has a similar issue (everything is a resource), but the game can still be subverted for environmental thinking. Environmental games that like Fate of the World are disempowering because they are top down and their challenges are too big in term of scale and complexity. World without Oil (an alternate reality game) is more successful. It is also American-centric. It seems that positive impact on player’s environmental thinking is, in the case studied by the paper, done by an anxiety-provoking context, except for Minecraft, but the transfer to the real world behaviour is not clear.Harrer, Sabine. 2019. Talk: Plantations of Play – Colonial botany in videogames (talk)Great blog post, from a talk. The author discusses the fact that gardens are colonialistic by essence (I don't fully agree, but very good points there) and that video games function like gardens, and, as such, are colonialistic. This point has been defended by other scholars, but never using that angle (for what I know). Very inspiring, a must-read as well.Ahn, Sun Joo (Grace), Jeremy N. Bailenson, et Dooyeon Park. 2014. «&#160;Short- and long-term effects of embodied experiences in immersive virtual environments on environmental locus of control and behavior&#160;». Computers in Human Behavior. Vol. 39, p.&#160;235‑245.This paper is not about video games, but virtual reality. It is a pilot study, on using virtual reality for environmental education. It is compared to watching a video or reading about the same topic. The effect of the studied media on users is studied through an experience of napkin consumption: weird but clever. The use of "locus of control" notion was very inspiring to me.Longan, Michael W. 2008. «&#160;Playing With Landscape, Social Process and Spatial Form in Video Games&#160;». Aether: The Journal of Media Geography. Vol. 2, p.&#160;23‑40.This is a paper about the landscape from the point of view of geography and labor. It is particularly interesting because it raises the question of landscape production (by whom, when, how), for which video games could be the perfect medium, but they hide the labor of game developers.Woolbright, Lauren. 2017. « Game Design as Climate Change Activism ». Ecozon@. Vol. 8, p. 88‑102.Climate change activism (CCA) in games is questioned is this paper around two interesting indie games "The Flame in the Flood" and "Little Inferno". I would have liked interviews of the developpers as it bothers me that their intentions were never questionned (probably the biais of being a poïetic scholar myself). The CCA in this game is indeed seen only through the eyes of the researcher-player. It includes interesting reflections on game design for CCA.In addition, if you are interested in the topic, I suggest you to follow Alenda Chang (@gamegrower) on twitter, as she should be shortly releasing her book "Playing Nature" (December 2020)! She was one of the editors of Ecozon@ edition on Green Computer and Video Games, that I recommend very highly as well.https://twitter.com/gamegrower/status/1187771691717427200Please feel free to suggest your own recommendations!