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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Muskan Singh

In 1970, George Adamson rented 500 square miles of unwanted Kenyan bush to return captive lions to the wild; 19 years later, after he was killed there, Kora became a national park

George Adamson spent much of his life in the Kenyan wilderness, far from the celebrity that surrounded his wife Joy and Born Free . His path to becoming one of Africa's best-known lion conservationists was anything but ordinary. He worked as a locust control officer, gold prospector, beeswax trader and professional hunter before becoming a game warden. Eventually, Kora in northern Kenya became the place where he devoted himself to returning lions to the wild, as per a report by KORA project.

Why did Adamson choose Kora?

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