Bachi has established a name for himself in bird and tiger conservation in India, especially at the Jim Corbett National Park in the Himalayas. He has 30 years of experience and has conducted workshops in the forests of Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. He has also traveled to East Africa including Masai Mara to study the wildlife.



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Bachi Singh Bisht

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 <spanundefined>BACHI SINGH BISHT is a Nature Warrior
 from the north of India. Here, he shares his wisdom with
 RAJESH MENON about how we can live in
 tune with the natural world, and what is our role in caring for and
 conserving nature.
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 <spanundefined style="color: #078ddb">Q: Tell us about how your passion for nature and conservation arose. Did
 it start from childhood?


 <spanundefined>RM: My mother told me that we used to
 live in a hut under a Gutel tree (Trewia Nudiflora). That’s where I was
 born. I was brought up in a village surrounded by thick jungle. Until the
 10th Standard, I went to a school located at the edge of the jungle near
 an ancient canal. I feel these natural surroundings had a great impact on
 me during my childhood. This is how my love for nature arose.


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 <spanundefined style="color: #078ddb">Q: Tell us about the work you do now?


 <spanundefined>RM: I became a nature guide, or
 “Nature Warrior” as my friends call me, in the early ’90s. I have managed
 wildlife lodges across Uttarakhand, Central India, Maharashtra and
 Rajasthan, sharing my knowledge of birds, wildlife, and the conservation
 of nature with others. Whenever opportunity presents itself, I am called
 by wildlife training institutes and environmental education institutes
 (both government and private) as a resource person, trainer, motivator,
 subject expert, and as a Yoga instructor based on nature therapy. Right
 now, I work as a freelance Nature Warrior and provide services wherever my
 inner self takes me in preserving nature.


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 <spanundefined style="color: #078ddb">Q: How do you advise that we educate our children about caring for the
 planet and relating to all living species?


 <spanundefined>RM: Using our five senses properly,
 sincerely and honestly. The most important is to use our moral and civic
 sense properly to avoid much of the nonsense going on around the world
 toward nature. Being honest to one’s own inner self will improve our inner
 connection with nature. Being disciplined and adhering to moral values in
 every single act of our daily lives will make us better human beings.
 Keeping ourselves sensitive to all beings will keep us responsible and
 humble towards nature.


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 <spanundefined style="color: #078ddb">Q: What advice can you give to adults about social responsibility toward
 nature?


 <spanundefined>RM: Keeping a mental, physical and
 moral balance, respecting women and the elderly, and love and care for
 young ones will go a long way. Every human being is made up of the five
 elements: earth, water, air, fire and sky. As adults, we have to have the
 right understanding of the true meaning of all these five elements and
 value them at the minutest level.


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 <spanundefined style="color: #078ddb">Q: Tell us about Jim Corbett National Park. Are there enough places like
 this in India to act as a refuge for natural wildlife? What more can we
 do?


 <spanundefined>RM: Jim Corbett National Park is one
 of the oldest in Asia, and the biodiversity here is unmatched. Here, the
 tiger has one of the highest density populations in the Indian
 subcontinent. India has more than fifty tiger reserves now, and tiger
 conservation projects contribute toward their increasing numbers.


 <spanundefined>Our responsibility as individuals and the collective society is to
 conserve nature. Rather than talking and writing, we need to act. Here and
 now.


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 Interviewed &amp; photography by<spanundefined>
 RAJESH MENON
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