News about the environment doesn’t always have to be bad. Award-winning environment journalist Bahar Dutt presents an account of her travels around India documenting and investigating efforts to restore nature. She comes across a battery of people—scientists, fishermen, and government officers who are turning the tide to save species and forests. On her journey the author gets to admire the grandeur of one horned rhinoceros up-close, observe the eggs of the Mahseer fish, shining like diamonds, walk in the footsteps of turtles hatched in riverside incubatories. Efforts to restore nature are not just about planting trees, sometimes it’s about uprooting them and planting grasslands. These and many such contradictions make conservation an ever exciting yet perilous journey.
