Page 88 - BBC Wildlife Volume 36 #12

WILD AT HOME

Noor, the celebrity
Bengal tigress of
Ranthambhore National
STOCKING FILLERS Park, emerges from Andy Rouse
a water hole.
Seven git ideas that help
support Britain’s wildlife.

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The tigress is stunning, too. One
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This is an incandescent picture shows her descending a vertical
screen-printed in Britain on
photographic portrait cliff with a casual agility that beggars
100 per cent unbleached
of the tigress Noor – belief. The book is testimony to the
cotton. What’s not to like
her cubs, hunts, mates great skill of its authors and the success
about a circus of pu ns or
and home in India’s of Ranthambhore’s management – you
a squabble of seagull?
beautiful Ranthambhore National Park. can only achieve this sort of day-by-day
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If you want to understand what photo coverage in a well-managed
separates the thousands of tiger reserve. Together, Ranthambhore, Andy
WINTER BIRDS
snapshots drilled out every year by Rouse and Aditya ‘Dicky’ Singh are
SCENTED CANDLE SET
indiscriminate, machine-gun cameras streaks ahead. Stephen Mills Tiger expert
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BAT PRINT
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A hand-drawn brown
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Conservation Trust.
and the last instalment in BBC Radio charity also has heaps of
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