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Valmik Thapar was born on 1952 in New Delhi, India, is an Indian conservationist. Discover Valmik Thapar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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His wife is Sanjana Kapoor
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Valmik Thapar Net Worth
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Valmik Thapar (born 1952) is an Indian naturalist, conservationist and writer.
He is the author of 14 books and several articles, and has produced a range of programmes for television.
Today he is one of India's most respected wildlife experts and conservationists, having produced and narrated documentaries on India's natural habitat for such media as the BBC, Animal Planet, Discovery and National Geographic.
Valmik Thapar was born in Bombay to Raj and Romesh Thapar, a noted journalist and political commentator who founded political journal Seminar in 1959.
He married theatre personality Sanjana Kapoor and the couple have a son, Hamir.
Valmik Thapar spent decades following the fortunes of India's tiger population.
His writings have analysed the perceived failure of Project Tiger, a conservation apparatus created in 1973 by the Government of India.
He has critiqued Project Tiger, drawing attention to its mismanagement by a forest bureaucracy that is largely not scientifically trained.
His most recent book The Last Tiger (Oxford University Press) makes this case strongly.
Among the consistent criticisms levelled by Thapar at India's Ministry of Environment and Forests relates to its unwillingness to curb poaching through armed patrols and its refusal to open forests to scholarly scientific enquiry.
His famous relationship with 'Macchli' a female tigress is documented in some of his chronicles.
As per the Hindustan Times
Joining the debate on the fate of T-24 (Ustad), Valmik Thapar, one of India's most respected wildlife experts and conservationists, said relocating Ustad was the best option: “In my 40 years of experience of the tigers of Ranthambore, T-24 is the most dangerous tiger I have ever encountered.
He killed four people, including two forest guards and two locals.
The local villagers were partly eaten.
The forest guards were not eaten because their bodies were retrieved keeping the tiger at bay.
“After the first two kills I had suggested that this tiger be relocated to a captive enclosure but the tiger was given the benefit of the doubt.
Later, two forest personnel have had to sacrifice their lives as a result.
T-24 (9-years-old) territory included the path pilgrims take to and around the sacred Ganesha temple and Ranthambore fort.
This last kill took place at the entry point of pilgrims and in daylight.
“The forest department and the government of Rajasthan have done a spectacularly successful job in relocating a man killing and eating tiger to a one hectare enclosure in Udaipur where he has eaten and is calm and where he will spend his last years.
By doing this they have made Ranthambore safer for the brave forest guards who patrol and the tens of thousands of pilgrims who walk.
“Our feelings today must be for the families who suffered tragically in these five years that have gone by.
It is for these families that we need to collect money and help.
Any person or group who believed that he should have not been relocated would have to bear the responsibility on their shoulders for the next human kill and the accelerating conflict that could result.
T-24 was given the maximum benefit of doubt that any man-eating tiger has ever got in recent Indian history.”
His stewardship of the Ranthambore Foundation was recognised and he was appointed a member of the Tiger Task Force of 2005 by the Government of India.
He criticised the majority Task Force view in his dissent note as excessively focussed on the prospects of co-existence of tigers and humans, which was, in his view not consistent with the objective of the panel.