We express our profound gratitude to the following individuals and organisation for their cooperation, valuable suggestions, fruitful interaction and logistic support that has helped us in the preparation of this report.

Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India

Mr. Vishwanath Anand, Mr. C.P. Oberai, Mr. S.K. Pande, Mr. K. Roy Paul, Mr. R.H. K22hwaja and Mr. S.K. Agrawal

Maharashtra State Government

Mr. Manohar Joshi, Mr. Gopinath Munde, Mr. M. Jog, Mr. P. Subrahmanyam, Mr. A.L. Bongirwar, Mr. A.M. Warty, Mr. Ashok Sinha, Mr. R. Rathore, Mr. V.B. Mathankar and Mr. P. Pardeshi

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation

Mr. R.C. Sinha, Mr. J.G. Deshpande, Mr. P.L. Bongirwar, Mr. E.M.H. Kazi, Mr. Khan and Mr. Jadhav

Maharashtra State Public Works Department

Mr. G.C. Tripathy, Mr. P.D. Wani, Mr. A.J. Jagtap and Mr. S.R. Nandargikar

Maharashtra State Forest Department

Mr. Vinay Bansal, Mr. Jagir Singh, Mr. M.G. Gogate, Mr. P.J. Thosre, Mr. A.K. Nigam, Mr. A.K. Jha, Mr. N.H.N. Shaikh, Mr. Rajesh Das and Mr. Nitin Kakodkar

Resource Persons

Mr. J.C. Daniel, Prof. K.C. Malhotra, Dr. P.K. Hazra, Dr. A. Rahmani, Dr. P.S. Roy, Dr. S. Singh, Mr. B. Sehgal, Mr. D. Goenka, Mr. Ram Gandhi, Mr. A.D. Kamlani, Mr. Chudasma, Dr. Bharat Bhushan, Dr. N.P. Singh and Dr. K. Chandra

NGOs

Mr. Shyam Chenani, Dr. E. Bharucha, Mr. Vijay Paranjpye, Mr. S.J. Patwardhan, Mr. D.S. Shukla, Dr. A. Jagtap, Dr. A. Khaire, Mr. S. Chaudhuri, Mr. S. Mehta and Ms A. Watve

Wildlife Institute of India

Mr. B.C. Choudhary, Dr. G.S. Rawat, Dr. P.K. Mathur, Mr. A. Saxena, Mr. S.S. Oberoi, Dr. J. Joshua, Ms Prachi Mehta, Mr. Antesh, Mr. Prakash Dash, Mr. N.S. Bist, Mr. Mukesh Arora, Mr. Gian Chand, Mrs. Manju Bishnoi, Mr. Dinesh Singh Pundir, Mr. G. Shanmugam, Mr. Mahesh Ghosh, Mr. Ismail, Mr. Virendra, Mr. Bhuwan Chand and Mr. Mohan Singh.

Our thanks are also due to all those persons whose names we have not been able to acknowledge individually.