Rohit Sharma Bats for Rhinos, Vows to Protect the Species Ahead of World Rhino Day 2019 (Watch Video)

Rohit Sharma is quite an animal lover and never fails to raise his voice against animal cruelty. Even his wife Ritika is quite an avid lover of animals and urges her fans to avoid mistreating animals. Now on World Rhino Day 2019, Rohit Sharma will be launching #RohitforRhinos movement and has promised to save the species. The Indian opener took to social media and posted a video of himself where he has urged his fans to join the movement. Rohit Sharma Pulls His Two Caribbean Fans From The Crowd to Groove to Dwayne Bravo's Champion Song (Watch Video).

The video posted by Sharma had quite an interesting caption which read, “There are approx. 3500 #Greateronehorned or #Indianrhinos in the world today; 82 percent of them in India. Join me to #batforrhinos on #worldrhinoday and support measures to protect these animals in the wild. Click the link in my bio to support the cause. @WWFIndia @animalplanetindia.” The campaign launches on September 22 and has pledged to do his bit.

Check out the video below: 

#RohitforRhinos campaign also partners with WWF India and Animal Planet and aims to help build awareness for the need to conserve the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros or the Indian Rhino. The Indian vice-captain also hopes that this will inspire a lot of his fans to join the movement and they will also do their bit to save the species. The Indian rhinos are usually found in Assam, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The species face a lot of threat due to poaching, habitat loss and mass mortality from inbreeding and disease.

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