A Guide to Planning Wildlife Management in Protected Areas & Managed Landscapes

Protected Areas represent glimpses of awe-inspiring creativity of evolutionary processes, albeit somewhat edited by the human footprint on wilderness. These sacred lands are the only ones capable of providing us a kinship with wondrous wild creatures and plants, our fellow travelers on this planet. We need to ensure their persistence for posterity. Over the past three decades Protected Area management in India has come to be driven by scientific wildlife management plans. Slowly at first, later as a mandatory process. Such conservation efforts cannot be sustained without long-term vision, direction and quality. The guide answers the need by providing the essential planning framework, procedures and processes. It is based on integration of modern scientific precepts and practice with social, cultural, economic, and administrative realities. It is designed to address multiple spatial scales and links with plans for forest management and those for social and economic development on the surrounding managed landscapes. The Guide is written for planners, wildlife managers, trainers educationists and those who are simply interested in wildlife.