In Focus-Parley | Can wildlife thrive in India without active human intervention?
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In Focus-Parley | Can wildlife thrive in India without active human intervention?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 202655 min
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How should India balance wildlife conservation with development, local livelihoods and the need for scientific research? In this discussion, Prof Qamar Qureshi, formerly of the Wildlife Institute of India, and Prof Uma Ramakrishnan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, examine the changing approaches to conservation, the challenges of protecting threatened species and the need to make conservation science more inclusive and responsive to the realities on the ground. Host: Jacob Koshy Producer: Jude Weston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is In Focus, the Hindu's current affairs podcast. Can wildlife thrive in India without constant human intervention? Or has the scale of human activity made active management essential to preventing species from going extinct? In this episode of the Parlin, we bring together Professor Kamar Kureshi, formerly of the Wildlife Institute of India

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and Dr. Umar Ramakrishnan, Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, to examine some of these difficult questions confronting wildlife conservation in India. For instance, does the focus on flagship species such as tigers and lions come at the expense of less charismatic but more threatened animals? Can captive breeding and reintroduction programs save species such as the Great Indian Buster?

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and how we would really reconcile the demands of conservation with development, renewable energy, infrastructure and the livelihoods of communities living alongside wildlife. I am Jacob Koshy to guide you through this and moderating this discussion. So Dr. Kreshy, I want to begin this discussion with you.

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