2017-10-01 Sanctuary Asia

Sanctuary | Cover Story

KALYAN VARMA

ABOVE A selfi e enthusiast intrudes the sacred space of a sambar along the Mudumalai-Bandipur road. The proliferation of social media has resulted in

photographers and tourists increasingly crossing the thin line of wildlife ethics.

BELOW Once used only by wildlife researchers, camera traps are being used eff ectively by photographers to get intimate views into the lives of

secretive animals. Here a leopard feeds on a gaur kill, inside a tea estate in the Western Ghats.

MUHAMMED NIZAR K. A.

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SWPA 2017