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Saviours of wildlife

by Gyanvitaranam

   Poachers and trophy hunters have been calling the shots for donkey’s years in the world-renowned wildlife reserves of Kenya despite the government’s marathon efforts to save the East African country’s rare elephants, rhinoceroses, lions, leopards, buffaloes and giraffes. But an Indiaheadquartered international non-profit Hindu religious organization promoting spiritual, cultural and social welfare across the globe has come to the rescue of the dumb denizens, especially their cubs and calves.

   Every year, ruthless poachers armed with AK-47 rifles, axes and chainsaws sneak into Kenya’s countless protected national parks and reserves in search of rhino horns, leopard skins and ivory from elephant tusks, and slaughter hundreds of mammals.

   In a lucrative illegal industry that has become the fourth largest criminal activity behind the trafficking of drugs, guns and humans, the freebooters get away with....

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