Saving Wild India: A Blueprint for Change

Saving Wild India spells out new and innovative ways to govern our wilderness and safeguard its future. In his new book naturalist and conservationist Valmik Thapar gives us a bold yet considered plan to preserve and protect our dwindling forests wildlife and wilderness areas. Saving wild India (whether we realize it or not) is of critical importance to the quality of life we lead today. It should therefore be a priority both at the level of the state and that of the individual to sort out the myriad problems that are leading to the destruction of our forests and the extermination of our wildlife - poaching timber smuggling illegal mining flawed administrative policy and much much more. Drawing upon more than forty years of experience in the field the author gives us a detailed blueprint on how to effect change and revitalize and expand our forest cover. He argues for the repeal of archaic and ineffectual laws the framing and passing of enlightened legislation the revamping of our training institutes the eradication of corruption putting an end to the meddling of politicians and bureaucrats the reorganization of the Indian Forest Service enlightened wildlife tourism an inclusive approach to conservation public-private partnerships as well as a variety of other measures that could check the ongoing damage to wild India.