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name: T.R. Shankar Raman
about: Author of The Wild Heart of India: Nature and Conservation in the City, the Country, and the Wild, Oxford University Press, India (2019).T. R. Shankar Raman (aka Sridhar) likes to imagine he is a writer turned wildlife scientist turned writer, who now lives in southern India in a landscape of rainforests and plantations in the Anamalai: the ‘elephant hills’ in Tamil. As a wildlife scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation, he works on the ecology and conservation of tropical forests and wildlife, mainly in the Western Ghats mountain range in India, studying plants and birds and other wildlife. As a writer, he writes creative non-fiction and reflective essays on nature and conservation for newspapers, magazines, and blogs, besides oc Author of The Wild Heart of India: Nature and Conservation in the City, the Country, and the Wild, Oxford University Press, India (2019).T. R. Shankar Raman (aka Sridhar) likes to imagine he is a writer turned wildlife scientist turned writer, who now lives in southern India in a landscape of rainforests and plantations in the Anamalai: the ‘elephant hills’ in Tamil. As a wildlife scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation, he works on the ecology and conservation of tropical forests and wildlife, mainly in the Western Ghats mountain range in India, studying plants and birds and other wildlife. As a writer, he writes creative non-fiction and reflective essays on nature and conservation for newspapers, magazines, and blogs, besides occasional book reviews and op-ed or feature articles. ...more