What happens if conservation is based on half-baked knowledge? Ask a person rendered homeless by wildlife managers
"No conservation strategy will succeed in India unless the biomass requirements of the local communities are harmoniously integrated into the strategy. The present conservation strategy has an in-built dimension that alienates local people"
-- B J Krishnan, advocate and founder of the Save Nilgiris Campaign
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