Filming The Greater One Horned Rhino
Greater One Horned Rhino
An Earth Touch Film by Stewart Whitfield and Gustavo Martinez Schmidt
In May 2014 Earth Touch commissioned me to travel to Chitwan National Park in Nepal’s lowlands near the Indian border. This amazing wildlife reserve
has the world’s largest population of Greater One Horned Rhino as well as Asiatic Tigers, Elephants, Bears, and all kinds of other wild animals that could eat you in a heart beat. With my dear friend and amazing film maker Gustavo Martinez Schmidt we spent a week within the Chitwan National Park and got away with some beautiful footage. The results of which can be seen in the film here.
The greater one-horned rhino is the largest of the rhino species. Once found across the entire northern part of the Indian sub-continent, rhino populations were severely depleted as they were hunted for sport and killed as agricultural pests. This pushed the species very close to extinction in the early 20th century and by 1975 there were only 600 individuals surviving in the wild. The conservation efforts in Chitwan National Park have been a success story and today rhino poaching is virtually done with the Nepali army having a shoot on site policy towards poachers…….
For more information about the Greater One Horned Rhino look at some of these links……….