: In this book, nature and conservation researchers explain how they protect wildlife in India #IndiaNEWS It begins with seeds in a parcel of poo. And it ends ... no, it doesn’t end at all. It is one

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In this book, nature and conservation researchers explain how they protect wildlife in India #IndiaNEWS
It begins with seeds in a parcel of poo. And it ends ... no, it doesn’t end at all. It is one of those stories with no ending, like any story of nature’s cycles that loops around and circles through time on its own journey. A story of wild hope and crushing despair, of a seed of an idea that grew into something far bigger and more challenging than we imagined.First, the seeds. It was 1999. We were walking on a narrow trail through the rainforests of Kalakad–Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), part of the Agasthyamalai range in the Western Ghats in India’s south-western corner. We were both there for field research for our doctoral degrees, but we are naturalists first. The rainforest kept us alert at every step. A jewel orchid sprouting leaves with intricate veins on the forest floor. A green forest lizard scurrying off the trail up a tree, keeping an eye on us from the corner. A flash of red, a purr and mellow notes from a dark understorey tree lighting up with the body and voice of a male Malabar trogon. Great whoops and crash of leaves and branches from the troop of Nilgiri langurs above, their voices...Read more

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