Corbetts Birthday

[perazzi]

Wth all due respect as this is my personal opinion , Kenneth Anderson as a good reading does not come anywhere in the league of Corbett.

Rohit.

[prashantsingh]

Putting up my "letter to the editor" which was published in the Journal of The Wildlife Preservation Society of India (on his birthday last year)
Edward James Corbett
25-7-1875 to 19-4-1955
Hunter turned conservationist and nature lover.Jim in his latter years became one of the most outspoken and hardcore naturalists and conservationists. The son of a post master, born with limited resourses he went on to create a lucrative business and above all a name for himself in the field of wildlife conservation.
His book the "Maneaters of Kumaon" is a classic. It has been translated into 17 languages and read by millions worldwide, majority of whom have never pressed a trigger or visited the Indian jungles.
He called himself a jungle detective and with the help of pug marks /scratches on the ground/pieces of hair or blood soaked leaves /broken twigs etc. could actually narrate the sequence of events that had taken place on that very spot moments/hours ago.He was our very own Sherlock Holmes of the Terai jungles.
Popularly known as Carpet Saheb by the locals , he fearlessly defended Choti haldwani and the adjoining jungles.
Once a leopard was shot by a senior Police officer in an adjoining block. Corbett sent his servant to tell the hunter that it was HIS leopard that had been killed. The hunter apologised but added "I did not realise that this was your leopard ......since I did not see the collar around his neck".
In those days few could immagine that our tigers today would actually need (radio) collars to save them from poachers.
The drastic fall in numbers of tigers in the wild from an estimated 50000 in the early 1900's to less than 2000 today signifies the amount of destruction we humans have caused. It is also an indication of the loss of habitat and drop in numbers of all the animals which the tiger feeds on. Anyone who has read Corbett's books will recall that Corbett was hunting maneating tigers at 7000 feet above sea level (and more) in the Himalayan jungles. Today the tiger has been localised to small pockets in few national parks , where he is far from safe. Sariska and Panna are examples of the same. There is still time. It is NOW or NEVER. So wake up guys and SAVE THE TIGER.
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This part is for my IFG friends.
P.S. My grandfather had the honour of meeting Corbett
a few times. Recalls him "as the tall thin man with a
thick mooch".

[shooter]

nice letter prashant. did it get published or did the publisher think it was better for his publication to have a story about 'vivek apologises to salman'/ yuvraj says, 'deepika is just a friend' or 'baba ramdev cures cancer'.