Freedom fighters · Science & public service · 1896–1987
Salim Ali
Birdman of India. Turned careful field science and conservation into a public duty: protect living India, not only mine it.
Ali's surveys and books made ordinary birds part of national knowledge. Conservation is slow patriotism against greed that sells forests and rivers quietly.
A country that cannot protect its sparrows will struggle to protect its files.
Why on this wall
Natural heritage as public trust against loot.