Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia: An Anthology

Langue : anglais

Edité par Aryan Books International, 2019

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Contents: 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and Richard Paley. Central Highlands of Sri Lanka: 37. Wonders Hidden in the Mist/Dishane Hewavithana, Eric Wikramanayake, Manori Gunawardena and 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. 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.…

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Titre
Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia: An Anthology
Auteur
edited by Prerna Singh Bindra, Sonali Ghosh and Anuranjan Roy
Éditeur
Aryan Books International
Année de publication
2019
État de l'article
As New
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Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
8173056277
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9788173056277

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