Conservationist H Byju’s new book explores migratory pathways from an elephant’s point of view
The Hindu
Why are elephants entering human habitations looking for food? Read on to know more
As sunshine filters through the trees, a peacock shakes off his morning slumber and langurs shriek as they hop across trees... that’s how morning unfolds inside the jungle through the eyes of Banti , a 60-year-old elephant.
“Why are elephants entering human habitations looking for food? Why are streams inside forests drying up? What has triggered the man-animal conflict?,” asks author H Byju as he explains why he set out to write his recently released book, Matriarch – Autobiography of An Elephant ( Neythal Pathipakam). Byju, an independent researcher, conservationist, and photographer, wrote a passionate account on why vultures are indispensable to bio-diversity in his first book Valley of Hope — Moyar and Vultures (Don Books).