Conservation Kaleidoscope: People, Protected Areas and Wildlife in Contemporary India

Conservation Kaleidoscope: People, Protected Areas and Wildlife in Contemporary India is a collection of over a 100 edits and accompanying news items that have appeared over the last two decades in the Protected Area Update, a bimonthly newsletter on wildlife and conservation that has been published regularly by environmental action group, Kalpavriksh since 1994.

Written by the newsletter’s long time editor, Pankaj Sekhsaria, the individual edits offer an interesting and often counter-intuitive account of the state of wildlife conservation and protected area management in contemporary India. Organised over 14 broad themes in this collection, the book offers a ringside view of conservation that is as challenging and informative as it is insightful and provocative.