Seeing wildlife was common in India two decades ago when the author studied
Hanuman langurs in the Masanagudi jungle at Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary. During
a recent visit, the author saw a bustling town ravaged by thousands of cattle
that scavenged the forest floor replacing the langur habitat. Destruction of
natural forest is not limited to India. When the author surveyed wildlife on the
other side of the globe-in Trinidad and Tobago in 1990, he saw agriculture farms
in the midst of a major wildlife sanctuary. Even in the remote wilderness of
Liberia's only protected reserve in 1980s, he saw chainsaws chopping rainforest
trees. From the Malay Peninsula