CONTENTS: The Gir Inheritance: Life Support Forest, Back from the Brink: Lest We Forget, The King Lives On: The Lion in Visual Culture, The Gir Lion Saga: Memories from Another Time, Green Mansions: The Plant Life of Gir, Wings of Destiny: Birding in Gir, The Return of Gir's Grey Hornbills: A Long Journey, Creatures Great and Small: Celebrating Gir's Diversity, Walking with Wild Lions: The Diary of a Field Biologist, A Scientist's Gir: Stories of a Wildlife Biologist, Life with Asia's Last Lions:A Phogographer's Journey, The Asiatic Lion's Landscape: Protection Beyond Boundaries, Ecotourism as Conservation: Well Planned Ecotourism can Drive Wildlife Protection, Conserving the Gir Inheritance: Science based Conservation Strategies, Science to the Rescue: Wildlife Forensics, Securing the Future: Biodiversity, Economics and Climate Change, A Checklist of Gir: Birds, Butterflies, Mammals and Reptiles, Editors/Writers/Photographers, Bibliography, Glossary/Photocredits, Editor's Acknowledgements, Index.