Madhav Gadgil — the conscience of people-centred conservation
Anecdote: When Madhav Gadgil began his career, he believed conservation meant fencing forests and removing people. Decades later, he publicly renounced this view, admitting that forests survive not despite communities but because of them. Walking the villages and forests of the Western Ghats, he listened more than he lectured, treating farmers, adivasis, and fishers as …
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