Imagine this. A hundred houses on a huge land. Each of these houses is like a human Noah’s arc. Two Marathis, two Bengalis, two Punjabis, two Gujaratis, etc (Let’s say we are talking in the Indian context.), similar to the ones that live in the other houses. A woman and a man, able to procreate and to sustain their kind. And between these houses runs a 20-lane highway, the houses like islands in the huge ocean of highway. The traffic is heavy on the high-way and death inevitable if one tried to cross-over. These 100 houses exist as separate entities, unaware that another house of this kind exists. And now imagine, if one house gets struck by a deadly virus and all the women die. What happens to the men? Would they die too, unable to carry forward their mission which was to sustain their kind? If only they could travel to another house. But how? They would surely die, even if they tried to move to another house, ploughed under the heavy trucks that move with lightening speed.
A long long time ago land was completely covered by forests. Animals were free to roam. A fire in a forest did not mean the end of all the animals in that forest. They could move on to another area. But as civilization grew, man cut these forests apart, and slowly all that remained were islands of forested area separated by towns, cities, fields and villages. Separated by a busy high-way making it virtually impossible for the animals to move from one area to another. Stuck in such islands, breeding within themselves and the inevitable genetic problems that arise, dying a slow death.
Imagine what man has done. He has effectively killed the animal-kingdom for his own survival. How can he undo the past? How can he ask for vindication?
Corridors is the only answer. Like bridges built across the 20-lane highway connecting each house, there can be corridors that would connect the forests, giving easy access to all the animals. The freedom of movement and the assurance of life.