The State of Wildlife and Protected Area in Maharashtra - 1996-2015 -

[Pankaj Sekhsaria]

Dear All,
Five years after it was published we are happy to make freely available
our 2019 book 'The State of Wildlife and Protected Areas in Maharashtra
- News and Information from the Protected Area Update 2016-2025.
The pdf of the book can be accessed from the link below:
https://tinyurl.com/y3yv2txc

You can also write to me at psekh...@gmail.com to get copies.

Print copies are also available for a discounted price of Rs. 300. Pls
do considering buying copies because sales will also help us sustain the
publication of the PA Update itself.

Details of the book:

Title: 'The State of Wildlife and Protected Areas in Maharashtra - News
and Information from the Protected Area Update 2016-2025.
Edited by Pankaj Sekhsaria
Published 2019 ISBN:9788192326931, Pgs 252, 100 line illustrations,
Price Rs. 400
Publisher: Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust, Kalpavriksh and
Rainfed Books

Synopsis: For nearly two and a half decades now the Protected Area
Update (PAU) has religiously presented a consolidated account of India’s
wildlife and protected area (PA) network. Published six times a year, it
carries in a tightly edited format, news and information of what is
happening in, to and around these national parks and sanctuaries that
have been at the core of India’s wildlife conservation strategy. In the
second of a series of edited books that synthesis this huge body of
information on geographical lines The State of Wildlife and Protected
Areas in Maharashtra - News and information from the Protected Area
Update 1996–2015 presents a consolidated historical account of
developments in the PA network in Maharashtra over two decades. While
the primary unit still remains the individual protected area, the time
line has changed from two months of one issue to 20 years that this
publication covers. In following one news item after another about any
particular PA we see what happened month after month, year after year;
what developments recurred at what periodicity; what were the issues
that were important and what was done about them – it’s an important
glimpse into the contemporary history of a place (many places) marked on
the map as a protected area.

LIST OF CONTENTS
- Editor’s Note
- Protected Areas in Maharashtra: A Brief Introduction

SECTION 1: News and Information from Protected Areas
News and information about TIGER RESERVES AND TIGERS

SECTION 2: Analysis and Perspective
1. Media Reporting on Protected Areas in Maharashtra: A
Thematic Analysis - Trupthi Narayan and Pankaj Sekhsaria
2. Coverage of Conservation and Wildlife in the Marathi Print Media: A
Practitioner’s Perspective - Reshma Jathar
3. Dividing Lines: Tribal Rights and Tiger Reserves - Shiba Desor
4. Rocky Plateaus:Little Understood Treasures of the Western
Ghats - Aparna Watve
5. Community Conserved Areas in Maharashtra - Neema Pathak Broome with
Sneha Gutgutia, Shruti Mokashi, Kavya Chowdhry, Sarosh Ali and Rupesh Patil


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Thanks
Pankaj Sekhsaria, Editor, Protected Area Update
C/o Kalpavriksh