India’s Experiments in Saving Nature by Bahar Dutt
Hindustan Times223 pp, Rs750; Oxford University Press, The United Nations had marked the years 2011 to 2020 as the ‘decade of biodiversity’. Two landmark scientific reports – The WWF Living Planet Report 2018 and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services 2019 -- point to the mass extinction of species or the unprecedented loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystems over the past five decades. Environmental journalist Bahar Dutt’s new book, Rewildling – India’s Experience In Saving Nature, turns the spotlight on some of the incredible conservation work in the country, where scientists and conservation practitioners are fighting a long and arduous battle to save species from going extinct. Author Bahar Dutt There are also stories on two urban rewilding projects, as Dutt explains that rewilding efforts need not be focused just on protected areas or charismatic species. It’s an opportunity to set things right, “to link protected areas through corridors, to bring back species once lost, and to vitalize our forests, rivers and wetlands.
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