01124    a2200133   4500020001800000082002200018100002400040245009000064260004500154300001300199504002600212520069800238650005400936  a9780199494743  a333.720954bRAM-W  aRaman, T.R. Shankar  aWild heart of Indiab: nature and conservation in the city, the country, and the wild  bOxford University Pressc2019aNew Delhi  axix,476p  aInclude Bibliography
  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.  aNature conservationvWildlife conservationzIndia