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Project Tiger Reserves : Resources Diversity, Sustainability, Ecodevelopment

A.B. Chaudhuri and D.D. Sarkar, Daya, 2004, xiv, 341 p, tables, figs, ISBN : 81-7035-313-0, $61.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)
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Project Tiger Reserves : Resources Diversity, Sustainability, Ecodevelopment/A.B. Chaudhuri and D.D. Sarkar

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Background information: 1. Project Tiger Reserves (Tiger-Panthera tigris tigris Linn.). 2. Twenty years of the project. II. Resources-a status survey of some tiger reserves of India: 3. Floristic bonanza as detailed by Botanical Survey of India (BSI). 4. Fauntistic bonanza as detailed by Zoological Survey of India. 5. Tiger reserves as viewed by Director, Project Tiger indicating some problems and prospects. III. Sustainability and ecodevelopment study in Buxa Tiger Reserve (a protected area): 6. Ecodevelopment and sustainability study in protected areas. 7. Nature education and awareness. IV. Improved protected area management in Buxa Tiger Reserve: 8. Background information. 9. Vegetation: qualitative data. 10. Vegetation: quantitative data. 11. Check-list on fauna, predator-prey relationship, man-animal conflict and endangered species. 12. Values of forests. V. Improved protected area management in Buxa Tiger Reserve: 13. Problems, threats, biodiversity loss and broad remedial measures. VI. Guidelines and recommendations: 14. Guidelines for management plan and sustainability of Buxa Tiger Reserve. Bibliography. Index.

"The book on Project Tiger Reserve is the outcome of the authors long research work in Buxa Reserve in the past and recently on two World Bank Projects. In the first project they studied various facets of the resources and problems of the reserve and prepared a detailed set of guidelines which formed the basis for preparation of Management Plan of BTR. The second project involved besides those of earlier works, a thorough study, on people, their education, awareness, research and monitoring and various other relevant issues especially in village co-development.

The book also gives a broad-base information on the past history of various tiger reserves, fact-based details on vegetation, predator and prey animals and problems of most of these reserves.

This indepth work of Buxa Tiger Reserve which deals with various facets of background political history, management history, various biotic and abiotic factors, problem, peoples’ dependence on forests also suggest some remedial measures. Ecodevelopment, improved P.A. management, awareness, research, monitoring etc. have been discussed and achievement analysed. It is hoped this case study will act as a ‘Model’ for future such studies in most of the Tiger Reserves." (jacket)

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