Bones of the Tiger (eBook, ePUB) - Mishra, Hemanta
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Tiger conservation is one of today's most pressing environmental issues. From a world population of approximately 100,000 tigers in 1900, these majestic carnivores have dwindled to less than 3,500 in the wild today, much of this due to poaching and habitat destruction. The author tells the fascinating story of one man's quest to save the man-eating tigers of Nepal. Unique in explaining the real story of atypical tiger behaviorbehavior that ultimately leads to conflict with humans, sometimes resulting in deaththis book also includes stunning photos by renowned Japanese photographer Mashahiro Iijima.…mehr

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Tiger conservation is one of today's most pressing environmental issues. From a world population of approximately 100,000 tigers in 1900, these majestic carnivores have dwindled to less than 3,500 in the wild today, much of this due to poaching and habitat destruction. The author tells the fascinating story of one man's quest to save the man-eating tigers of Nepal. Unique in explaining the real story of atypical tiger behaviorbehavior that ultimately leads to conflict with humans, sometimes resulting in deaththis book also includes stunning photos by renowned Japanese photographer Mashahiro Iijima.

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Hemanta Mishra, author of the widely praised The Soul of the Rhino (Lyons Press), is a distinguished biologist and conservationist who has worked with the Smithsonian Institution, the World Wildlife Fund, and the World Bank. He was awarded the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize and is credited with halting the extinction of the rhino and tiger populations of Nepal by merging Eastern philosophy with Western science.

Jim Ottaway Jr., an American writer and the former chairman of Ottaway Newspapers Inc., has long supported conservation efforts in the Himalayas.