Child lifting: Wolves in Hazaribagh, India

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 162-166

  Rajpurohit, Kishan Singh ^a  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INDIA; PREDATION; WOLF;

CARNIVORE; CHILD CARE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

INDIA;

EID: 0032963195     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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29. The exchange rate is 1. Re = USD 0.023.
30. The author is grateful to Shri. S.K. Mukherjee, Director, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, for providing financial support for this work. Shri. V.B. Sawarkar, Head, Wildlife Management, Dr. A.J.T. Johnsingh, Head, Wildlife Biology, Dr. N.P.S. Chauhan and Dr. Asha Rajvanshi of the Wildlife Institute of India gave valuable comments and suggestion. My special gratitude to Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Hanut Singh, 180/C, Rajpur Road, Dehradun for improving manuscript.' Thanks are also due to Shri. B.D. Sahay, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Government of Bihar, Shri. P.K. Sen, Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden, Government of Bihar, Shri. A.K. Prabhakar. Divisional Forest Officer, Hazaribagh West Forest Division, and Shri A.K. Malhotra, A.C.F., Hazaribagh West Forest Division for providing technical assistance.
31. First submitted 16 April 1997. Accepted for publication after revision 21 November 1997.