Honorary Tiger
The Life of Billy Arjan Singh
Duff Hart-Davis
An affectionate biography of India's renowned 'tiger-man'
Having devoted fifty years of his life to animal conservation and now popularly known as India's latter-day Jim Corbett and 'tiger-man', eighty-seven-year-old Billy Arjan Singh is by any standards an extraordinary man.
Hart-Davies' biography traces Billy's path to conservation from his game shooting as a boy on the family estate, to his life as a farmer in North Kheri, where he witnessed first-hand the devastation of wildlife at the hands of humans.
Billy's building of Tiger Haven - a magical spot at the edge of the jungle - saw his energetic launch into the area of conservation. As a freelance wildlife warden, he played a major role in the creation of the Dudhwa National Park in 1973, authorised by India's prime minister of the day, Indira Gandhi. In 1976 he was awarded the WWF gold medal for his work in saving an important herd of swamp deer. Billy Arjan Singh recently became the first Indian to receive the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation award (2004), which serves to recognise outstanding contributions in International Conservation.
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About Duff Hart-Davis Duff Hart-Davis is the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, the most recent including Fauna Britannica: The Practical Guide to Wild and Domestic Creatures of Britain, and Audubon's Elephant. He lives in Gloucestershire.
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