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Eminent ecologist Dr Madhav Gadgil completes extensive study of Karnataka wildlife

Dr Madhav Gadgil completed an extensive study of Karnataka wildlife to assess conservation efforts and evolve methods to effectively preserve the diminishing fauna.

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Gadgil: alarmed
The lion-tailed macaque, the black buck, and the Nilgiri langoor are facing extinction. The mangrove forests have disappeared from the West Coast. The scrub forests of the Deccan Plateau have been totally destroyed. Dandeli, one of the richest bamboo forests in the Western Ghats, is being systematically wiped out. And in two decades, the forest-clad Western Ghats would have nothing growing but parthenium and eupatorium, two obnoxious weeds.

These are some of the chilling findings made by eminent ecologist Dr Madhav Gadgil, National Environment Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Gadgil has just completed an extensive study of Karnataka wildlife to assess conservation efforts and evolve methods to effectively preserve the diminishing fauna.