‘At the Toes of Living Things’ journals experiences of ecologists who practise a collaborative and socio-ecologically sensitive tactic to conservation Illustration: Yogendra Anand Until the late 1990s, pupils of mother nature mostly worked within protected places and seldom interacted with the societies and cultures that existed in the larger sized landscape. They had been guided by the prevailing conservation notions that species would be adequately guarded if there were being secured parts, and that nearby people and their tactics had been a risk to wildlife. Having said that, only about five for each cent of India’s land is secured, which is not more than enough to sustain wild animals in the very…