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WILD TREASRES: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology

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Type: English

Pages: liv+450

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ISBN-13: 9788173056277

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 15 cm x 24 cm

Product Year: 2019

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The World Natural Heritage Sites protect over 286 million hectares of land and sea, including trans-boundary sites, signifying that heritage sites belong to all peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.

Wild Treasures is a selection of 45 carefully curated articles, channelling voices past and present to take you on a journey across Asia’s most beautiful landscapes. Wet, evergreen forests of India’s Western Ghats and Sri Lanka; the only mangrove forests, Sundarbans, where tigers roam across India and Bangladesh; the mystical tropical forests of Myanmar where tigers are revered as ‘relatives’ but are equally vulnerable to poaching pressures; the Lut Desert in Iran, the hottest place in the world; the snowy peaks of the Himalayas, the haunt of the elusive grey ghost —the Snow Leopard; Keoladeo, a wetland dense with birds in the dry region of India’s Rajasthan; the rhino’s realm across India’s Manas, Kaziranga; Chitwan in Nepal, and the sacred mountainscape of Khangchendzonga are just some of the places highlighted in this anthology. The voices are equally varied. The pieces in this collection have been penned by writers, poets, ecologists, scientists, foresters, photographers, conservationists —all bonded by a love for nature and our natural heritage.

We hope that the book will kindle an appreciation for nature, encourage responsible travel and garner support for these imperilled natural wonders.

Message — The Hon’ble President of India

All You Wanted to Know about Natural World Heritage: A Primer — Sonali Ghosh & Vinod B. Mathur

A Treasury of Wild Words — Prerna Singh Bindra

Writing Outdoors — Stephen Alter

Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area

1. Reflections on the Great Himalayan National Park

— Payson Stevens

2. GHNP: The Wilds and Its People

— Sanjeeva Pandey

Kaziranga National Park

3. Kaziranga Diaries

— Sonali Ghosh

4. Kaziranga: The Gem of India

— Asad Rahmani

5. Back to the Future: One Hundred Years of Conservation

— Bittu Sahgal & Ranjit Barthakur

Keoladeo National Park

6. The Keoladeo Ghana of Bharatpur (Rajasthan)

— Salim Ali

7. A Bharatpur Aficionado Remembers

— Peter Jackson

8. Bharatpur: Brushstrokes from the Past

— Ranjit Lal

Khangchendzonga National Park

9. Securing Khangchendzonga: Healthy Forests, Happy People

— Sandeep Tambe

10. Aspiration

— Francis Younghusband

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary

11. Manas: Monkeys and Mysteries

— E.P. Gee

12. Monuments Men: A Story for Manas

— Sonali Ghosh

13. The Magic of Manas

— Asad Rahmani

Royal Manas National Park

14. Finding Culture through Nature

— Tenzin Wangchuk

15. Treasures of the Thunder Dragon

— Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks

16. In the Shadow of Nanda Devi

— Samir Sinha

17. Becoming a Mountain

— Stephen Alter

18. On Doing Nothing

— Frank S. Smythe

Sundarbans National Park

19. The Sundarbans Inheritance: Protecting a People’s Legacy

— Bittu Sahgal

20. Sundarban: A Mystical Tiger Swamp

— Pradeep Vyas & Cheena Vyas

21. An Epiphany

— Amitav Ghosh

The Sundarbans

22. The Lord of Mud and Tide

— Ruth Padel

23. The Princess of Angtihara

— Samia Saif

Western Ghats

24. Mountains of the Monsoon

— Kamal Bawa & Sandesh Kadur

25. A Wealth of Wildlife

— Prerna Singh Bindra

26. Cliff Goats

— E.R.C. Davidar

27. Kas Plateau: Tackling the Tourism Tsunami

— Prerna Agarwal

28. A Day in Periyar

— M. Krishnan

29. Nagarahole: A World of Predators

— K. Ullas Karanth

30. Sacred Groves: Memories of What Had Been

— Erach Bharucha

31. Silent Valley: Whispers of Reason

— Sugatha Kumari

32. A Sojourn through the Sahyadris

— Girish Punjabi

33. A More than Memorable Trek

— A.J.T. Johnsingh

34. Seasons in the Sun: An Avian Rhapsody

— Manoj Nair

35. For All Things Little

— Anuranjan Roy

Band-e-Amir (Afghanistan)

36. Band-e-Amir National Park: A Sacred Land of Azure Lakes

— Abdul Wali Modaqiq & Richard Paley

Central Highlands of Sri Lanka

37. Wonders Hidden in the Mist

— Dishane Hewavithana, Eric Wikramanayake, Manori Gunawardena & Dhiya Sathananthan

38. Into the Wet: Field Notes from Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone

— Ian Lockwood

Chitwan National Park (Nepal)

39. Kingdom of the Unicorn

— Alex Dudley

40. Chitwan: A Heavenly Abode

— Kanchan Thapa

Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary (Myanmar)

41. The Valley of Death

— Alan Rabinowitz

Lut Desert (Iran)

42. Extreme: The Incredible Ecosystem of Earth’s Hottest Spot

— Richard Stone

Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal)

43. Mount Everest: Return of the Snow Leopard

— Som B. Vale

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries: Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains (China)

44. A Mountain of Treasure

— George Schaller

Western Tien Shan (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan)

45. Tien Shan: Mountain of Heaven

— Koustubh Sharma

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Prerna Singh Bindra is a wildlife conservationist, writer, communications and policy strategist, focusing mainly on conservation of wildlife habitats and critically endangered species. She was formerly a member of the National Board for Wildlife and its Core Standing Committee. Her last book, The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis, was published in 2017. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the UNESCO Category 2 Centre: Asia-Pacific at the Wildlife Institute of India, and a student of M.Phil. in Conservation Leadership, University of Cambridge.

Sonali Ghosh is an Indian Forest Service officer with more than twenty years of work experience in the field of natural resource management and heritage conservation. As part of her job, she has worked as a field manager in UNESCO Heritage Sites of Kaziranga and Manas and has been a founding faculty member of the UNESCO Category 2 Centre on World Natural Heritage Management and Training for Asia and the Pacific Region. She wants to dwell deeper into the subject of nature-culture linkages and her last co-edited book on this subject was titled Cultural Landscapes of Asia.

Anuranjan Roy is a mechanical engineer by training and a curiosity-driven creature by character. During his decade long experience as a medical device engineer, split equally between opposite ends of the globe, he took every opportunity to branch out into alternative fields of learning, visiting World Heritage Sites spread across four countries. A winner of writing competitions organized by the Indian Express, Outlook Traveller and the Wildlife Institute of India, he works at the UNESCO Category 2 Centre at WII, pursuing a combination of his interests in the craft of writing, heritage conservation, and travel.

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