This book tells the survival stories of ten of India’s rarest animals. A few have made truly heroic comebacks from the very brink of extinction; others have not been so lucky and are spiralling to their almost inevitable doom. The Asiatic Lion The Great Indian Bustard The Blackbuck The Vulture The Rhino The Hoolock Gibbon The Forest Owlet The Gharial The Lion-tailed Macque The River Dolphin Conservation writer and award-winning novelist, Ranjit Lal writes an engrossing account of how human callousness has driven so many beautiful animals and birds out of their natural habitats.
