Wild India

This volume surveys India's wild places and wildernesses. It describes and illustrates the region's diversity of plant and animal life, and focuses upon the current pressure on India's natural heritage which still threatens endangered species.

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This work forms part of a series comprising natural history studies of countries which are biologically rich and have a diverse natural heritage. The series also looks at natural environments under pressure from the encroachment of industry and agriculture, and considers the conservation and ecological issues.;This volume surveys India's wild places and wildernesses. It provides an account of India's ecological history as it has been affected by geography, climate and human history, and describes the region's diversity of plant and animal life. The focus is upon the current pressure on India's natural heritage which still threatens endangered species.;The photographs portray the natural history of India's major regions, and the text, written in an accessible style by an expert, provides information on species and their status, deforestation rates, population size, and conservation development during the 1990s.