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From the publisher

Billy Arjan Signh's extensive writings are an impressive and reliable record of the large-scale changes in the north Indian countryside, and a tale of one man's efforts to stem the tide of destruction. This volume gathers together some of his most significant wildlife writing, giving an overview of a life spent in a uniquely single-minded championing of the cause of conservation.

Culled from several published and some unpublished writings, this collection deals with the problems afflicting efforts to create a national park in a developing country, and the implementation of conservation measures in general. Billy's writings on the tiger point to the need for constant vigilance and effort to prevent this majestic animal from being brought to the brink of extinction. He also writes authoritatively about the swampdeer, and about his extraordinary experiments to rear big cats and teach them the ways of the wild so that they could return to their natural habitat.

With 15 color photographs and a biographical introduction by Geoffrey and Diane Raines Ward, this is a collector's edition for wildlife enthusiasts.

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Title Watching India's Wildlife The Anthology of a Lifetime (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Author Billy Arjan Singh
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 188p.
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New Delhi, India
Publication date November 16, 2004
Features Glossary, Illustrated
ISBN 9780195672183
Themes
- Topical: Ecology

About the author

Billy Arjan Singh, a scion of a princely family, took to hunting at a very young age, but circumstances and his own character led him to a different path altogether. For several years he shared his world with leopards--first Prince and then the twins, Harriet and Juliette; the tigress, Tara; and Eelie, the mongrel who came into his life as a stray and stayed for the rest of her life as a companion to him as well as the cats.

Billy has been based since 1959 in Tiger Haven, his farm in Uttar Pradesh, close to the border of Nepal. Surrounding his land on three sides is Dudhwa National Park, the wildlife sanctuary he almost single-handedly established, and which is amongst the few remaining refuges for swampdeer. It is here that he has extensively studied the varied wildlife of the area, especially the tiger. His experiments with re-introducing in the wild captive-bred carnivores--especially the zoo-born tigress, Tara--have no parallel in Asia, and his degree of success with the leopard is unique.

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