Dede Sophie

This old world monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India was once on the world’s 25 most endangered primates list. Today, it is no more on this list and its numbers are slowly increasing to healthy numbers. And all thanks to simple, yet effective wildlife conservation efforts by the government, forest department, local authorities, wildlife enthusiasts, plantation owners, locals and others.   I am talking about the lion tailed macaque, an arboreal rainforest dweller who prefers the upper canopy of moist evergreen forests. There was a time when their numbers thrived along with the rest of the forest species. Then their forest habitat started fragmenting as humans started timber harvesting and building exotic plantations like tea, coffee, rubber, etc and villages on the edges of the forests started burgeoning into large towns, cities and hill stations. This led to a drop in their numbers. Lion tailed macaques were killed while crossing the highways and humans were either killi

Books are my passion and connecting Readers with Authors and Books is my delight. I want it to continue being a joy and not become a pain, which is how certain events over the course of last year had begun to make me feel. That’s the reason for these major policy changes. I’ve explained both the reasons for the changes and changes themselves in detail below. Please continue reading as it concerns Giveaways, Winners and Prizes. ———————– The way I run my giveaways is – I pick a random winner after a giveaway is over and email them for their details. I specifically mention that they should respond before a particular date or a new winner will be chosen. Some winners respond promptly, some never do or do so after the deadline by which time I’d have emailed a new winner. But doing all this means I have to keep notes to keep track of all the people who’ve responded, to choose new winners where required, keep track of if they reply, etc etc. And seeing how I have giveaways on practically e