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999			_c26152 _d26152
020			_a9780199494743
082			_a333.720954 _bRAM-W
100			_aRaman, T.R. Shankar
245			_aWild heart of India _b: nature and conservation in the city, the country, and the wild
260			_bOxford University Press _c2019 _aNew Delhi
300			_axix,476p
504			_aInclude Bibliography
520			_aWild - untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out there in far wildernesses - from the Thar desert to the Kalakad rainforests, from Narcondam Island to Namdapha - but amid us, in gardens and cities, in farms, along roadsides. And he writes about the forces that gouge land and disfigure landscapes, rip trees and shred forests, pollutes rivers and contaminate the air, slaughter animals along roads and rail tracks - impelling a motivation to care and to conserve nature.
650			_aNature conservation _vWildlife conservation _zIndia
942			_2ddc _cBK