Delhi (TAN): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will appear in British wilderness survival show ‘Man vs Wild’, presented by British adventurer Bear Grylls.
The episode, that will be broadcast on Discovery Channel India on August 12, will show Prime Minister Modi accompanying Grylls on an adventure through India’s forests. A recently released trailer showed the two men floating in a makeshift raft in the river inside Uttarakhand state’s Jim Corbett National Park.
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“For years, I have lived among nature, in the mountains and the forests. These years have a lasting impact on my life. So when I was asked about a special programme focussing on life beyond politics and that too in the midst of nature I was both intrigued and inclined to take part in it,” Prime Minister Modi was quoted by Discovery Channel as saying.
He added: “For me, this show presents a great opportunity to showcase to the world India’s rich environmental heritage and stress on the importance of environment conservation and living in harmony with nature. It was a great experience spending time in the jungle once again, this time with Bear, who is blessed with indefatigable energy and quest to experience nature at its purest.”
The Prime Minister reportedly shot for the episode with Grylls in the tiger reserve in Dhikala, Uttarakhand on February 14 this year.
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Grylls, who has earlier hosted other global politicians on the show including former US President Barack Obama, took to Twitter to confirm the news and release the trailer of the upcoming episode.
On the same day, which coincided with International Tiger Day, Prime Minister Modi announced that India’s tiger population has increased by 33 per cent to nearly 3,000, according to a national census.
He added that the country had fulfilled a pledge to double its tiger population four years ahead of deadline. Numbers grew from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,967 animals in 2018, making India home to around 75 per cent of the world’s tiger population.
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Uttarakhand, which reportedly accounted for 442 tigers in the 2018 report, is famed for the Jim Corbett National Park, a habitat for Bengal tigers and other wildlife.
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