Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh

Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh
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Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9789351940722
ISBN-13 : 9351940721
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Book Synopsis Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh by : Duff Hart-Davis

Download or read book Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh written by Duff Hart-Davis and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly known as India's latterday Jim Corbett and 'tiger man', 87-year-old Billy Arjan Singh is by any standards an extraordinary man. At Tiger Haven, his home in a magical spot on the edge of the jungle in UP, Singh's experiments with bringing up three orphaned leopards, and also Tara, a tiger cub that he imported from a zoo in England, shot him into both limelight and controversy. His aim was to see if Tara's instincts would make her revert to the wild when she became mature. They did, and over the years, she produced four litters of cubs, thus proving his contention that it is possible to supplement dwindling wild stocks with zoo-born animals. But when it was discovered that the tigress had Siberian genes in her ancestry, he was accused of having introduced a 'genetic cocktail'into the jungle. Undeterred, Singh remained a champion of the forest and its denizens. It was almost entirely due to his advocacy that in 1973 the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, authorized the creation of the Dudhwa National Park. Now, in his eighties, comes recognition for his efforts. In March 2005, he received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award - a global honour administered by the World Wildlife Fund, that serves to recognize outstanding contributions in international conservation. In this affectionate biography, the British author Duff Hart-Davis tells the story of a man absolutely dedicated to the cause of animals, who has given fifty years of his own life to their conservation.


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