Save this rhino: Kruger to Kaziranga
KP s charity SORAI (Save our Rhino Africa/India) aims to make fair use of the swashbuckling cricketer s personality to amass public support, funds and awareness for saving the rhinos.
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| 10 Jan 2021 2:38 PM GMT Why are Indian forests smaller and often far away from each other unlike Africa? asked prolific cricketer-turned conservationist Kevin Pietersen (KP) at breakfast in his trademark gesture of raising of his shoulders and eyebrows together. My reply travelled back in time for a few centuries. We leisurely dwelt upon the ecological history of India, colonialism, laying of railway lines, mushrooming population, princely states and their private game reserves. We wondered how these factors altered the mosaic of wilderness in India. A comprehension of pluralistic complexity of conservation was central to our informal discussion.