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Besides Loving the Beasts
India is not India without its wild animals. However, conservation of wildlife leads to misery for millions of people. It conflicts with the constitutional guarantee of people's right to life and property. It amounts to knowingly causing death, injury or property damage, a crime under the Indian Penal Code. Successful conservation spells doom and gloom for more people. Preserving dangerous animals costs the country billions but we are dead against earning anything from this indulgence. All in the name of our love for wildlife.Wildlife corridors, the darling of the nature lovers of India, are like an expensive antibiotic with serious side effects and no guarantee of cure. We invite ever more ...
Laws at War
The Avalon Project of the Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, offers access to a collection of miscellaneous treaties, conventions, and agreements that are considered to constitute the laws of war. The documents are from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Inside Forest Fires
Like all its siblings, this book is also a myth-buster. In short, it brings out the creative side of the much hated forest fires.Of course fire kills the living and burns the dead. But, it also creates opportunities for new life and growth by freeing space and life-building materials. Fire creates diversity of habitats that nurtures diversity of life. Forests without fire will be fit for a few species but unfit for many. No forest can escape fire forever. But small fires can prevent devastating conflagrations. No wonder many countries burn their forests in patterns believed to mimic historical fire regimes.But, In India, foresters can go to jail if there is a forest fire. We spend crores on ...
Road to Nowhere
This book is about a question that bothers no one in India: Why preserve wild animals despite the danger they pose to human life and property? While the whole world is conserving wildlife as a natural resource to support national economies, India preserves dangerous animals just for the heck of it. While the world feeds millions and makes billions from wildlife, an impoverished India says we want none of it. As a result, both, the animals and people, are just struggling to survive. HS Pabla, of the Indian Forest Service, spent 35 years trying to preserve India's wildlife, wondering: why? When he found an answer, that wildlife can be the backbone of the rural economy, rather than just being a...
Laws At War
This book goes where none has gone before: the dark, convoluted, alleys inside the conservation laws of India.We have seen compilations of laws and rules, with discussions on judgments and case laws. But no one has dissected our conservation laws with the purpose of identifying the features which militate against conservation itself. Now we know that the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, our principal conservation tool, is riddled with internal contradictions and inconsistencies. Also, that we often violate some of its provisions when we comply with others. The government imperiously uses one law to do things which other laws prohibit. And, we have made new laws to undermine existing ones.The book illustrates how the country has committed ecological harakiri by bringing in the Forest Rights Act 2006.The author also shows how these bickering laws can still be fitted seamlessly together by smoothening their rough edges. He even argues in favour of a single integrated conservation law.Dr. H.S. Pabla, formerly of the Indian Forest Service, has spent 43 years conserving wildlife, 35 of them at the frontline. If he says the conservation laws need to change, probably they do.
Wardens in Shackles
This book is a call to decentralise wildlife management in the country."Wardens in Shackles" is the second offering, after the "Road To Nowhere," in a trilogy planned by the author on Wildlife Conservation in India. While the "Road To Nowhere" critiqued the founding philosophy of wildlife conservation in India, "Wardens in Shackles," now challenges the way conservation is done and administered in the country. Modern wildlife conservation in India was originally conceived as a partnership between the Centre and the States. But, the relationship has gradually deteriorated into a boss-subordinate framework where the States have to seek Central permissions for even the smallest interventions on ...
Wardens in Shackles
"Wardens in Shackles" is the second offering, after the “Road To Nowhere”, in a trilogy planned by the author on Wildlife Conservation in India. While the “Road To Nowhere” critiqued the founding philosophy of wildlife conservation in India, “Wardens in Shackles,” now challenges the way conservation is done and administered in the country.
Effective Conservation
"Full Nature" is a new approach to conservation that connects the well-being of the natural world with the human communities in its midst. Pioneered by conservationist Ignacio Jiménez, it offers a pragmatic approach that puts the focus on working with people--neighbors, governments, politicians, businesses, media--to ensure communities have a stake in the long-term protection and restoration of their local parks and wildlife. Effective Conservation is based on Jiménez's experience managing conservation projects on three continents over thirty years. It guides readers through the practical considerations of designing, analyzing, and managing effective conservation programs. This highly readable manual, newly translated into English after successful Spanish and Portuguese editions, provides a practical, time-proven formula for successful conservation.
Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour of Wild Cattle
A beautifully illustrated reference work on the biology, ecology, conservation status and management of all thirteen species of wild cattle and buffalo. This book will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals in animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation biology.
History of Great Nicobar Island The Ascent
This book is all about the incredible last point of India, Great Nicobar. It was the ex-servicemen from Punjab who first inhabited in the Great Nicobar Island on 23.4.1969 AD and this paved way from other states for settlement in Great Nicobar Island. Induction of ex-servicemen settlers brought life into the Great Nicobar Island. Their struggle and sacrifice in developing this island, braving the severe weather conditions and non-availability of adequate medical facilities brought Great Nicobar Island into the limelight. The dedication, struggle and sacrifice shown by all Ex-servicemen of Great Nicobar Island is beyond comparison and put Great Nicobar Island on the map of progress. This encouraged me to write about “Induction of Ex-servicemen settlers to Great Nicobar Island”
