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Wild Perspectives is a book of pictorials and picture stories for easy reading with interesting titbits on birds, animals, and other wildlife. Besides picture which depicts interesting situations and expressions of wildlife, I have also attempted to include their cultural connections and associated folklore with us humans.
The below-mentioned, beautifully coined Foreword aptly explains the purpose of the book.
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FOREWORD
Simplicity and characterisation are the essence of this book, which aims to promote nature conservation and wildlife through its short stories and pictorials.
Rapid reduction of forests and depletion of natural resources are fast destroying the habitat of birds and animals, and natural beauty is being lost to urbanisation and industrialisation. Intervention through awareness is the intended purpose of this book.
Urban lifestyles and the prevailing digital era have restricted outdoor activities and adventure travel for our younger generation. The stress of studies and work-related pressures in life have forced an indoor existence for most. This book intends to motivate such groups to experience and explore nature and its simple pleasures, sounds and odours in grasslands, forests and nature reserves.
This book provides a character sketch through pictures of wildlife outside the concrete jungle. Exciting situations, moods and gestures of birds, animals and other wildlife have been captured in photographs and paraphrased in simple sentences to create interest. While sights, aroma and vocalisations are difficult to express, the book attempts to mirror scenarios where the activities of birds and wildlife in their habitat mimic human actions and reactions.
It is not the intention of the book to name places and countries where the pictures were taken, or even to promote any specific locations; instead, the book focuses on the life and style of the subjects in their natural environment and develops in us a feeling of empathy and responsibility for conservation and propagation of non-human life forms.
The book is best read over coffee.
Harbir Singh, IAS, Wildlife Photographer & Deputy Commissioner, Government of Punjab, India
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