Born Wild

Swati Thiyagarajan, NDTV's environment editor, is one of India's top conservation and environment journalists. She has been with NDTV since 1997. Born Wild, the show she scripts, directs and presents, is the only conservation show to have had a ten-year run on a news channel. Swati has won the Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in environment journalism twice. Born Wild was declared best series at the Indian Television Awards. She also won the Sanctuary Asia Award, Earth Hero Award, Wind Beneath my Wings Award, the Carl Zeiss Award for consistent reporting on tiger conservation and several others. She now handles content for the NDTV-Aircel Save Our Tigers Campaign, which is in its fourth year, and editorial content for other environment campaigns on NDTV. At present, she lives between Cape Town and Delhi. She has directed a fifty-two-minute documentary film titled The Animal Communicator that has had over four million views on YouTube and has had a theatrical release in Cape Town, at the Exploring Consciousness Film Festival.Feel the magic of the wild come alive with the book you're holding in your hand. Come, walk with the author through mesmerizing wildlife landscape - from the length and breadth of India's forests and sanctuaries in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, the Western Ghats, Karnataka and Orissa to Rwanda, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. Through brilliantly vivid experiences Swati recounts fascinating insights into wildlife sighting and conservation efforts around the world, covering a wide array of wildlife including tigers and gorillas, lions and elephants, sloth bears, sea turtles and sharks, crocodiles, pelicans and penguins.If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This is a book that tells the stories of sounds and sights that most of us never even get close to. It distills over 20 years of dedication to understanding and reporting Nature and the environment.