SAVE THIS RHINO INDIA
Following the learnings from Save This Rhino (2019) set in South Africa, former English cricket captain Kevin Pietersen is keen to find out more about what’s happening to rhinos in India, his second home. Kevin sets out to discover all that India has to offer from the culture to the unique wildlife and what wildlife conservation, especially for rhinos, looks like there. This time he teams up with National Geographic explorer and world renowned conservationist Dr Krithi Karanth on a journey to Kaziranga National Park to find out exactly what's going on and the ways they can help. Do rhinos face the same issues as in South Africa?
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SYNOPSIS
Episode 1: Heroes of Kaziranga
After experiencing the rhino poaching crisis in South Africa in 2018, ex-cricketer Kevin Pietersen (KP) continues his conservation journey and travels to Assam, where the last Indian rhinos live. Poaching is still an ongoing battle there, but the situation is drastically improving. KP soon discovers why. The efforts and hard work that local authorities and people in the Assam region are putting towards conservation is making a great difference for the lives of the endangered species.
Episode 2: Battling Nature's Fury
After seeing how well the Indian population are dealing with Rhino poaching, KP continues his quest in Kaziranga National Park and quickly discovers that there is a far worst threat to rhinos. The annual floods. Each year rhinos have to escape this natural phenomenon by moving to higher ground. In doing so, they are in direct conflict with people and homes surrounding the park who are dealing with the same issue. The rhinos either become scared of facing the human race or become too exhausted on their journey uphill and drown. This occurrence is symptomatic of what climate change and population growth are creating around the world. KP has seen how technology can drastically improve conservation efforts in Africa. Now, he wants to see its potential in India.
CAST
KEVIN PIETERSEN
KP is best known as a former English cricketer and captain of the English Cricket Team, but what he’s most passionate about is his family and wildlife conservation. While he participates in many conservation projects including his own organisation SORAI, he is eager to have as much of the world possible join him in the fight for rhinos.
KRITHI KARANTH
Dr. Krithi K. Karanth is currently Executive Director at the Centre for Wildlife Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke University. She has conducted extensive research on conservation issues in India since 2001 focusing on mammal extinctions, effects of anthropogenic pressures, voluntary resettlement of people, tourism trends, human-wildlife conflicts, resource and land use change around Indian parks.
DAVE WARD
Dave Ward is a 20+ Year Industry Luminary who is recognized for Advancing the Capabilities of the Internet, and a conservationist dedicated to finding technological tools and solutions for today’s conservation challenges..
Dave previously served a distinguished career as the Chief Technology Officer of Engineering, Chief Architect and Senior Vice President at Cisco’s Networking and Security Business.
More recently, Dave is the CEO of PacketFabric which fundamentally changes how enterprises can consume communications services by offering global “on- demand” Networking-As-A-Service provisioning, coupled with innovative services and consumption-driven business models
SHAHNAZ IMAM
Shahnaz leads the brand portfolio for Cisco India and SAARC. As a principal advisor on the brand platform, creative content and media activations she leads the full range of brand marketing responsibilities and has been instrumental in building thought leadership that positioned Cisco as an innovative technology leader in the region, by connecting the dots between Cisco’s business and technology story, its people, and its social purpose.
PRODUCTION
THIS. FILM STUDIO
MICHAEL LAWRENCE - Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Producer
NICHOLAS COOK - Executive Producer, Producer
ANNA TRICHET-LAURIER - Director, Writer, Producer
JUSTINE A. ROSENTHAL - Writer, Executive Producer
SARAH HATZON - Producer, Production Coordinator
SHRUTI TAKULIA - Associate Producer
PRIAM DAMDARAN - Associate Producer
KELLY CAMERON - Editor
THOMAZ LABANCA - Director of Photography
NAIYER GHUFRAN - Director of Photography
SATISH NIKITA - Sound Operator
AMIT VACHHARAJANI - Producer, India
MANASH DAS - Local Producer
HANSRAJ BORPATRAGOHAIN - Fixer, Translator
GAURAV JOSHI - Assistant Camera
SUNIL DATT JOSHI - Assistant Camera
SHASHANKA SAIKIA - Additional Camera
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