Recently, my latest book AMONG TIGERS: FIGHTING TO BRING BACK ASIA’S BIG CATS turned one year old. In case you have not read it or even heard about it, here is a sales pitch! Because the book was published abroad by Chicago Review Press, it is a bit expensive by Indian standards. However, Penguin Random House who are distributing it in India have made all efforts to keep the price low. It is available from them, in book stores as well as from Amazon.in and other similar web portals. I hope you will order a copy or gift one to someone interested. Here is the story in brief:
I grew up in tiger country. One of the best habitats in the world for wild tigers: the Malenad landscape in the global biodiversity hotspot known as the Western Ghat mountains of India. I was steeped in a culture that celebrated tigers, yet horrified to see the last wild tigers were being hunted out and their habitats being logged and turned into farms all around me.
For over the next five decades, I engaged in the struggle to conserve wild tigers in India, their best stronghold globally. In my book AMONG TIGERS, I tell the story of the tiger itself – its incredible biology, its critical role in shaping natural ecosystems of Asia, and the unique place it holds in our collective imagination.
But Among Tigers is also the story of how we wound up with fewer than five thousand wild tigers, and how, with better focused efforts, we can grow that population ten times or more in a few decades.
In doing so, we can not only bring the world’s largest and most beloved big cat back from the brink but also but also save countless other species that share the tiger’s habitats, from freezing forests of Siberia to the tropical forests of India.
In this book I share the adventurous real-life story of my quest to study, understand and save wild tigers. And, and, along the way, my hopeful realization that tiger conservation is a battle than can still be won despite the incredible challenges that remain. Ultimately, AMONG TIGERS is a roadmap that shows us how to not only save the greatest of great cats, but even bring it roaring back in numbers never before seen in our lifetimes.
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