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Lionhearted

Vicki Constantine Croke

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Description:The unlikely bond that saved a forest, a way of life, and the only wild Asiatic prides in the world.In ancient times, the Asiatic lions’ range stretched from the Middle East to Greece to India. They show up in the Bible where they’re the lions that decline to feast on Daniel. By the early 1900s they had been hunted to virtual extinction, with only two dozen surviving. After touching bottom, the lions began making a miraculous recovery. There were about 177 in 1968. Three hundred in 1995. A census in 2015 showed there are 523, and another estimate in 2017 reached 650. Because they survive only in this region, and because their forest home—about 545 square miles comprising the Gir Forest National Park and buffer sanctuary— is hemmed in by the country’s massive human population of 1.3 billion, they are still often referred to in dead-end terminology: the last lions of India. And yet these lions seem the start of something not an end, and in the process defy everything we think we know about lions. Their revival is a beautiful puzzle that anthropologists, paleo-geneticists, economists, and conservationists disagree on. What’s undeniable is that the unique bond between the lions and the Maldhari people has been good for the people, the lions, and the environment.The Forest Department promotes trust, shores up harmony, and protects people and lions. When lions kill livestock, the herders, who are Hindu and vegetarian, are compensated. Cement water troughs, off limits to the livestock of the Maldhari, are set out for the lions in hot, dry summers. The community protects the lions from poachers. And in a complicated way, the lions are protecting the home of the people too.But this is the big picture. It’s made up of dozens of stories of people documenting, researching, and living with the lions. And it’s those relationships that Vicki Constantine Croke will document in her new book, from Meena Venkataraman, the biologist who has tracked and sketched wild lions, using whisker patters to identify over 60 individuals, to the lion hospital where most of the patients are being treated for fights with other lions, not people.Proximity to lions is, for the Maldharis, a defining feature of life and identity. One scholar found that the Maldharis report feeling closer and more connected to lions than they do other to other humans who live outside the park. As a Maldhari boy said to her: “Sinha amara che”: “The lion is ours; it is us.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lionhearted. To get started finding Lionhearted, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Random House

Release: 2021

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Description: The unlikely bond that saved a forest, a way of life, and the only wild Asiatic prides in the world.In ancient times, the Asiatic lions’ range stretched from the Middle East to Greece to India. They show up in the Bible where they’re the lions that decline to feast on Daniel. By the early 1900s they had been hunted to virtual extinction, with only two dozen surviving. After touching bottom, the lions began making a miraculous recovery. There were about 177 in 1968. Three hundred in 1995. A census in 2015 showed there are 523, and another estimate in 2017 reached 650. Because they survive only in this region, and because their forest home—about 545 square miles comprising the Gir Forest National Park and buffer sanctuary— is hemmed in by the country’s massive human population of 1.3 billion, they are still often referred to in dead-end terminology: the last lions of India. And yet these lions seem the start of something not an end, and in the process defy everything we think we know about lions. Their revival is a beautiful puzzle that anthropologists, paleo-geneticists, economists, and conservationists disagree on. What’s undeniable is that the unique bond between the lions and the Maldhari people has been good for the people, the lions, and the environment.The Forest Department promotes trust, shores up harmony, and protects people and lions. When lions kill livestock, the herders, who are Hindu and vegetarian, are compensated. Cement water troughs, off limits to the livestock of the Maldhari, are set out for the lions in hot, dry summers. The community protects the lions from poachers. And in a complicated way, the lions are protecting the home of the people too.But this is the big picture. It’s made up of dozens of stories of people documenting, researching, and living with the lions. And it’s those relationships that Vicki Constantine Croke will document in her new book, from Meena Venkataraman, the biologist who has tracked and sketched wild lions, using whisker patters to identify over 60 individuals, to the lion hospital where most of the patients are being treated for fights with other lions, not people.Proximity to lions is, for the Maldharis, a defining feature of life and identity. One scholar found that the Maldharis report feeling closer and more connected to lions than they do other to other humans who live outside the park. As a Maldhari boy said to her: “Sinha amara che”: “The lion is ours; it is us.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lionhearted. To get started finding Lionhearted, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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