Professional Life of Mysore Doreswamy Madhusudan Mysore Doreswamy Madhusudan unveiled the links between coffee output in Brazil and patterns of livestock grazing and possession in and around the forests of Bandipur. He found out that the worldwide fall in the prices of coffee resulted in a bigger demand for cow dung used in coffee estates in various areas in Nilgiris and Western Ghats. It further resulted in large-scale export of dung changing it from locally produced and consumed manure for agriculture to a high-value organic fertilizer used for industrial export to coffee plantations. Thus, as a result of the dung export, the numbers of livestock in the region increased, which further aggravated the grazing pressures on forests. Thus, this work of Mysore Doreswamy Madhusudan challenged the widespread notion that resource use for subsistence is discernible from and preferable to commercial reserve use in the framework of protected area management in the country. Awards of Mysore Doreswamy Madhusudan Mysore Doreswamy Madhusudan received several prestigious awards for his work and contribution towards wildlife conservation in India. In May 2009, he was conferred with the Whitley Award, popularly known as the Green Oscar for his extensive work to decrease human-wildlife conflict in the Western Ghats. |