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Conservationist honoured

Special Correspondent

JAIPUR: David Ferguson, the man who helped India in its conservation strategies during the past quarter-century, was felicitated here on Monday on the eve of his retirement as the chief of International Conservation, the US Fish and Wildlife Service for South Asia, South Africa and Near East. The Pink City formed the venue for the one of the many programmes being organized in his honour in various parts of the country.

The desert State, known for its vast and varied pasture lands and a bovine wealth whose population outnumber that of humans, chose "grassland ecology and gene pool conservation'' as the theme for a three-day event to mark Dave's (as Mr. Ferguson is popularly known) farewell act. About a fortnight back, Jodhpur, had befittingly hosted a workshop on primates to honour him. Dave had been instrumental in supporting a research project on primates in Rajasthan.

"Dave is the person who changed our lives,'' Steve Landfried, eminent conservationist from America said introducing Mr.Ferguson to an audience of conservationist and experts. The organisers presented Mr.Ferguson with a Jaipur carpet, with pugmarks woven on it. Dave's footprints in Rajasthan are conservation history!

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