VALMIK THAPAR

Noted environmentalist, wildlife filmmaker & advisor, tiger conservationist, author, and spokesperson for the natural world.

The Tiger Man of India

-By Arya Patil

PERSONAL LIFEBORN : 1952

LIVES IN : Maharani Bagh, DELHI, INDIA

PARENTS :ROMESH AND RAJ THAPAR

TIGER GURU : Fateh Singh Rathore

FAV TIGER:“MACHLI”

SANJANA KAPOOR(WIFE)

theatre personality , actress

HIS Family Tree

ROMESH THAPAR

(FATHER)noted journalist and

political commentator.

RAJ THAPAR

(MOTHER)

KARAN THAPAR

(COUSIN)Noted television

commentator and interviewer

PRAN NATH THAPAR

(GREAT UNCLE)fifth Chief of Army Staff of

the Indian armyRomila Thapar

(AUNT)Indian historian

HAMIR(SON)

• Mother Raj and father Ramesh Thapar, both journalist, were close friends of late Smt. Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India.

• Being topper of sociology at Delhi University, Valmik refused the job with Shriram Chemicals.

• Photography gives him many national and international awards.

• His first visit to Ranthambore Wildlife Reserve became the milestone of his life.

His famous relationship with 'Machli' a female tigress is documented in some of his chronicles, marked officially as T-16 at Ranthambore National Park.

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CONTRIBUTION

• Spent decades following the fortunes of India’s tiger population.

• Appointed as a member of the Tiger Task Force of 2005 by the Government of India.

• Author of 14 books and several articles , and has produced a range of programmes for television media as the BBC, Animal Planet, Discovery and National Geography.

• In an effort to keep human habitation inside the forest at bay, he started the Ranthambore Foundation in 1987.

• Thapar concluded his role in Ranthambore

Foundation in 2000.

• Earlier, in 1992, when Ranthambore was in the eye of a poaching crisis, he was forced into the terrain of government decision-making.

•What is he currently working on?His current book on lions and cheetahs - Exotic Aliens.

THAPAR’S MESSAGE FOR US

We do need to review the laws. The worst poachers are to be found in the best forests.

Doctors, bureaucrats, conservationists, businessmen, journalists - everyone can help.

If you see something happening, report it. I wish the media would look into these issues with

greater depth.

Our forests are World Heritage sites and we must protect them as such.

"In 1992, I said that the tiger will not survive. I hope I will never have to make such statements again."

Thank You ! Master Arya Vijay Patil

Std: VSmt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School

Thane, INDIA 400 606neetavijaypatil@gmail.com