Wildlife Management: Concept, Analysis and Conservation

by Saxena, Amita

ISBN: 9789386949608
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 9495.00
Biblio : x+266 p., 25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Amita Saxena Professor of Fisheries Sciences at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India has been awarded as an outstanding woman of 20th century award (America). She formulated feed for air breathing and ornamental fishes, organisms and other aquatic animals. Her debut in designed pearl culture in Uttrakhand (Hill State) is praise worthy and remarkable. She is crowned with young scientist award, several fellowships/gold medals, Environment endowment award and Bharat Jyoti /Vijay Shri award . She transferred the wildlife conservation and fisheries technologies to the farmers through visits, lectures, radio and TV talks. She has done wildlife survey of HP, UP and Uttrakhand. She has written 19 books and 06 manuals . Nowadays, she is busy in improving the rural economy of poor people through fisheries and other small scale ventures in eco-friendly atmosphere.

About The Book

This books is an unique compilation of 21 chapters, which have been contributed by leading experts who have made significant contributors to wildlife management. This book highlighted the wildlife and its conservations, which include snake and snakebites, Indian Shad, Indian Rhinoceros, Himalayan Musk Deer, Sea Turtles, Lizard, Blood Squirting Lizard, Gyps Vultures, Wild Tigers, One-horned Indian Rhinoceros, Pangolin, Indian, Bustard, Endangered Bird Conservation, Bioremediation, The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and Wildlife Conservation and its Management. This book is valuable to students and teachers of zoology, fisheries, wildlife, professional to wildlife management, forest park rangers, animal lovers and general public to know about important wild animals.

Table of Contents

Preface v 1. Snakes and Snakes Bites 1 Amita Saxena 2. Declining Status and Conservation of Indian Shad Tenulosa ilisha (Hilsa), (Hamilton, 1822) 21 Seema Jain, Manu Varma and Nisha Rana 3. Bioremediation: A Microbial Technology for Improvising Wildlife 29 Anita Sharma and Pankaj Bhatt 4. An Overview of Indian Wildlife 41 Nidhi Mishra 5. Conservation and Management of Indian Gangetic Dolphin 57 Seema Jain and Manu Varma 6. Endangered Bird’s Conservation 73 Ritu Agrawal and Sandeep P. Jadhav 7. Wildlife in India: Importance and Conservation Efforts 85 Akansha Khati 8. Conservation and Rehabilitation of Critically Endangered Gangatic Ghariyal (Gavialis ganeticus) 95 Amita Saxena, Anita and Maneesh Kumar Dubey 9. Present Status and Conservation of the Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) 101 Pratibha, Seema Jain and Nisha Rana 10. Himalayan Musk Deer (Moschus chrysogaster): An Introduction of the State Animal of Uttarakhand with Persisting Threats and Mitigation Strategies Employed 109 Amita Saxena and Pooja Kanyal 11. Biology of Sea Turtles and Need for Conservation 123 Bindu Sharma 12. Present Status and Conservation of Monitor Lizard 165 Bindu Sharma 13. World's Weirdest Blood Squirting Lizard: The Horned Toad 171 Bindu Sharma 14. The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 177 Hemlata Wankhede and Yogesh Reddy 15. Wildlife Conservation and Management 183 Geeta Bansal, Vinay Gupta, Rashmi Gupta and Seema Khan 16. Gyps Vultures and their Conservation 189 Abhinav Chauhan and Amita Sarkar 17. Wild Tigers: A Battle for Survival 199 Jayita Thakur, Darshan Malik and Shashi Nijhawan 18. Fighting for Survival: Greater One-horned Indian Rhinoceros 205 Renu Baweja, Shashi Nijhawan and Darshan Malik 19. Pangolin: A Unique Mammal with Scales 213 Deepika Yadav, Darshan Malik and Sunita Singh 20. Wildlife Conservation 233 Amita Saxena and Smita Chauhan 21. Running Out of Time: The Decline of Great Indian Bustard 249 Aeshna Nigam and Ankita Dua Index 259