Manipal: Manipal Universal Press (MUP) will release book titled ‘Tilo’s Troops: Handiwork of a Primatologist in Vietnam’ by Murali Paiatthe, Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES), Advanced Research Centre (ARC) on April 3, 2019 at 4.30 PM. Vice Chancellor Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dr H Vinod Bhatwill will release the book and Dr Madhukar Pai, Professor, Department of Epidemology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada will be the Guest of Honour.
Murali Pai is an equine veterinarian, conservation biologist, environmental writer and Editor of African Conservation Telegraph (ACT) – an e-newsletter of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB), Africa Section. His conservation work traversed India, the US, China, Ethiopia, and Bhutan before he met Tilo Nadler at the EPRC in Cuc Phuong, Vietnam, to write his first book. The author lives in Mangaluru.
About the book
In 1993, Tilo Nadler, an ageing German welder turned air-conditioning engineer, photographer, filmmaker and self-made biologist arrived in Vietnam for training foresters in Cuc Phuong National Park to secure the Park from poachers, hunters and vandals. Within two months, he is tasked with the care of two confiscated sub adult male Delacour’s langurs, a rare, endemic and critically endangered primate species. This book narrates Tilo’s story to start-up a world class rehabilitation centre for endangered primates against all odds in Vietnam.
