Subject(s): Animal ecology -- Biodiversity conservation -- Monitoring -- Three models for how ideas circulate throughout globe -- Gateway of India- introduction of new technology to India : " Birdman of India- Salim Ali, Indian ecologist - pre independence, natural history to ecology, Indian birds, rise of American influence in BNHS -- Looking for jungle- American ecologists in India : Why BNHS want American ecologists to come to India -- Scientists for spies- ecology in a climate of cold war suspicion : Bharatpur- politics of Indo-US ecology in 1950, brid banding at bharatpur, Pacific ocean biological survey, gateway to India is closed -- Modern ecology comes to India : Madhav Gadgil, imperial Harvard biology -- Science to save the natural world- ecology of conservation : Ecological theory and conservation, Island biogeography, minimum viable populations, debate over reserve size- SLOSS, rainforest mafia, hazy art of predicting extinction rates, biodiversity and conservation biology -- Indian science for Indian conservation : Nationalism and Indian ecology : Indian forestry service- managers for India's protected areas and species, biologists enter the wildlife institutes of India, conceiving a better Indian wildlife biology -- All nature great and small- designing Indian nature preserves : Letting nature take its course, cattle and conservationists, Bharatpur ecology study, preserving nature in India, SLASS, SLOSS, conservation ecology crossing borders