September, 2006
From monkey bites to sound bites
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My academic training was in the wildlife sciences. I was at Jersey Zoo off the coast of England set up by the famous author and wildlife conservationist Gerald Durrell. In the cold howling wind I sat huddled in a corner- my job was to record the behaviour of a family of five small furry monkeys roaming free in the Zoo- they were to be released back in Amazon forests and we were studying if they had acquired the skills to survive in the wild. In Africa, off the coast of Kenya we spent weeks building wooden bridges for another species of primates. The Angolan Colobus monkey with its black and white coat is endangered, many of the animals get run over while crossing high-speed roads, which bifurcate the forests, they live in. So we built overhead bridges and ropeways across trees so that they no longer had to....
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Bahar Dutt is a wildlife conservationist by training. She has worked for the last ten years on crucial wildlife conservation projects in India and abroad. In England she worked at the world famous Jersey Zoo set up by naturalist Gerald Durrell and was involved in assessing the conditions for release of endangered primate in the Amazon forests. . She has over 10 awards to her credit including the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2006 and the Wildscreen Award , UK and the Young Environment Journalist Award 2007. As an environment editor at CNN-IBN she has done a range of stories travelling to far and forgotten corners of this country to expose the nexus between the mining mafia, politicians and corporates. She has posed as a furniture maker to expose the illegal trade in banned timber in the Western Ghats, and the nexus between the police and a mining company in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa. One of her most dramatic exposés involved a cement company of global dimensions that had been operating illegally in the forests of Meghalaya on the India-Bangladesh border. More recently, she and the CNN-IBN team exposed the operations of a miner in Goa who had illegally devastated forest lands. Their story led to the shut down of the mine.
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