Rohan Arthur, Aparajita Datta, T. R. Shankar Raman

Broschiertes Buch

AT THE FEET OF LIVING THINGS

Beschreibung

Have you wondered what it is like to follow hornbills in a dense rainforest? Or felt the pain of a mountain shepherd losing his sheep to a leopard? Or how it feels when a child discovers birdwatching is more exciting than being glued to a screen? The world of nature conservation is full of adventure but it is also hard fraught with challenges...

Autor

Aparajita Datta is a scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation leading the Eastern Himalaya programme under which research and conservation work with hornbills is carried out. She studies plant-animal interactions human impacts on wildlife and works with local communities for conservation. She is the co-chair of the IUCN SSC Hornbill Specialist Group. Rohan Arthur is a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation. He is interested in marine systems and has worked in coral reefs seagrass meadows and nearshore coastal ecosystems in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. He is particularly interested in how ecological processes respond to climate change and how social-ecological systems can adapt to a warming world. T. R. Shankar Raman (aka Sridhar) is a writer and wildlife scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation. He is interested in the ecology and conservation of tropical forests and wildlife especially in the Western Ghats. He is based at the field research station in Valparai in the Anamalai Hills. He is the author of The Wild Heart of India: Nature and Conservation in the City the Country and the Wild and co-author with Divya Mudappa of Pillars of Life: Magnificent Trees of the Western Ghats. CONTRIBUTORS: Ajay Bijoor Anindya 'Rana' Sinha Aparajita Datta Charudutt Mishra Divya Mudappa Elrika D'Souza Ganesh Raghunathan Geetha Ramaswami Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi M. Ananda Kumar Mayuresh Gangal P. Jeganathan Pranav Trivedi Rohan Arthur Rucha Karkarey Suhel Quader Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan Swati Sidhu T. R. Shankar Raman Teresa Alcoverro Vinod Krishnan Yash Veer Bhatnagar ILLUSTRATOR: Sartaj Ghuman

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins India
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9789394407855
• ISBN-10: 9394407855
• Artikelnr.: 66224485