Join Aranya and Prakriti as they set off on an adventure to The Land of the Talking Trees where you will meet Sour Lions, Honey Leopards, Pink Dragonflies, and the Heroes who saved them. Taking you on a magical journey, the book inspires you with tales of real-life people who are torchbearers of nature conservation. The stories are complemented with Green Actions to create a fun-filled learning experience. Planet Protectors: Stories of Green Heroes encourages young minds to think of ways in which they can contribute towards conserving the environment and become everyday green heroes.

News about the environment doesn’t always have to be bad. Award-winning environment journalist Bahar Dutt presents an account of her travels around India documenting and investigating efforts to restore nature. She comes across a battery of people—scientists, fishermen, and government officers who are turning the tide to save species and forests. On her journey the author gets to admire the grandeur of one horned rhinoceros up-close, observe the eggs of the Mahseer fish, shining like diamonds, walk in the footsteps of turtles hatched in riverside incubatories. Efforts to restore nature are not just about planting trees, sometimes it’s about uprooting them and planting grasslands. These and many such contradictions make conservation an ever exciting yet perilous journey.

A modernizing economy brings in its wake ecological challenges and misplaced priorities. Development, environment, conservation, global warming what do they mean in real terms, on the ground, to the people there? Must development always be in conflict with environment? Combining rigorous research with the experienced traveller’s eye for piquant stories, conservationist and environment journalist Bahar Dutt chases some of the biggest stories of our times. From Arunachal Pradesh to the Arctic, from Goa to Gangotri, from illegal mining to climate change, Green Wars journeys to some of the richest wilderness areas, and explores the tension between a developing economy and saving the planet. Lucid, heart-warming and intensely personal, this is a book for green warriors, yes, but equally for those of us who crave blue skies and fresh air.