Wildlife Issues and Crisis in a Changing World: A Naturalist's 25 Years Jungle Journey in Asia Africa

by Govindasamy Agoramoorthy

ISBN: 9789383129508
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 12995.00
Biblio : xiii+378p., figs., tabls., ind., 23 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Govindasamy Agoramoorthy Tata-Sadguru Visiting Chair, Sadguru Foundation, India and Professor Environmental Sciences, Tajen University, Taiwan.

About The Book

Seeing wildlife was common in India two decades ago when the author studied Hanuman langurs in the Masanagudi jungle at Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary. During a recent visit, the author saw a bustling town ravaged by thousands of cattle that scavenged the forest floor replacing the langur habitat. Destruction of natural forest is not limited to India. When the author surveyed wildlife on the other side of the globe-in Trinidad and Tobago in 1990, he saw agriculture farms in the midst of a major wi