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Having finally obtained permission to enter the park pre-dawn each morning, the next difficulty we encounter is getting our parks’ driver and guide to be up and ready to leave by [...]

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Bandipur NP
An Introduction (from Andrew)
Richard and Prue are both our neighbours and very good friends. Over the last seven years we have helped each other build [...]

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Our last morning at Nagzira. If we are to obtain any further recordings here, this will be our last opportunity. We decide to make for the narrow valley, and arrive there [...]

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Precisely on 5.30am Satish and Radisham appear at our door, wrapped in blankets and holding a lantern; “Ready sir!!”. We’re touched, they are genuinely going out of their way to make [...]

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Our driver and guide have disappeared. Well, they’re not where they’re supposed to be. When I go down to wake them, the car is not there and all is quiet. I [...]

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I go down to wake the dynamic duo. Satish sleepily winds down the window. “Sorry Sir, program is cancelled”. “Why?” “Permissions not granted”. India strikes again. Disappointed we nevertheless [...]

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Nagzira’s evergreen forest
Our driver and guide sleep in the car overnight, parked at the back of our lodge. At 5.45am I go downstairs and wake them. They are both shivering [...]

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In this diary of a week in India, we take you to Maharashtra, to the jungles that inspired Rudyard Kipling. We begin having just spent two fruitless [...]

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India may seem like an unlikely destination to experience the wilds of nature. With a population of over a billion people, are there any places in the subcontinent that human presence has not overwhelmed?
Well, fortunately, there are. India has a diverse range of landscapes and habitats, and many forest and wild areas are protected by [...]

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