Valmik Thapar (Internationally celebrated wildlife conservationist

The Last Tiger

Struggling for Survival

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the history of the crises concerning the tiger and its survival in India, and the conservation efforts to battle them from the nineteenth century right up to the present crisis. The new Preface 'We Cannot Save the Indian Tiger', critically reviews the current tiger population in India and the conversation measures undertaken.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP India
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780198078821
• ISBN-10: 019807882X
• Artikelnr.: 39395292

Autorenporträt

Valmik Thapar is an internationally celebrated tiger and wildlife conservationist. He is a member of the National Board of Wildlife chaired by the Prime Minister, and is the author of twenty-one books on tigers, wildlife, and Africa, most recently The Tiger: Soul of India (OUP 2011), An African Diary: 12 Days in Kenya (OUP 2009), Ranthambhore: 10 Days in the Tiger Fortress (OIP 2011), The Illustrated Tigers of India (OUP 2007), and Tiger: The Ultimate Guide (OUP 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

We Cannot Save the Indian Tiger'
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Photographs
THE EARLY DAYS
THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES
INDEPENDENT INDIA: 1947-64
THE NEHRU YEARS
COUNTERING THE FIRST CRISIS
A COMMITTED LEADER
THE SECOND CRISIS
THE END OF A CENTURY 1999-2002
THE THIRD CRISIS
EPILOGUE
JEOPARDIZING THE TIGER-FAILURE, FAILURE, AND MORE FAILURE
Annexures
Bibliography
Index