FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT
 

 

 

Last of East (30 min; 2007; dvd; English)

 

Director: Vijay Kumar

 

 

 

Documentary on the importance and history of the Namdapha Biosphere Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh and its unique flora and fauna. The interference of man is beginning to disrupt the ecological balance of the park

 

 

 

Gaur in My Garden (26 min; 2012; English)

 

Director: Rita Banerji

 

 

 

Recipient of the Best Film Award, Environment Category, Woodpecker Film Festival, Delhi 2013; and Jury Special Mention, Biodiversity, CMS Vatavaran, New Delhi 2014

 

 

 

The film looks at human-animal interactions and conflicts arising in Kotagiri, Nilgiris – one of the key biodiversity hotspots in India. The story unfolds through the experiences of the residents of the Keystone Foundation Campus with the Gaur or the Indian Bison – on the IUCN red list of threatened species, and takes us through the larger context of this conflict

 

 

 

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)