16-Sep-09 8:00 PM CST

Rhino Film to Premiere in US

Guwahati: Assam is showcasing its rhino conservation success story to the West to woo more tourists.

Chief minister Tarun Gogoi will launch a documentary on rhino conservation in New York on September 19.

The documentary, supported by the Union tourism ministry, has been made for the National Geographic by Richard C. Banks of the National Museum of Natural History, Washington.

Assam government spokesman Pradyut Bordoloi today said Gogoi would inaugurate the documentary to popularise the state’s wildlife and attract more tourists.

Bordoloi said though Gogoi was on a personal visit to the US to be with his family, there was an invitation from the National Geographic to inaugurate the documentary.

Sources in the forest department said the documentary was shot mostly in Kaziranga National Park, which has the highest concentration of the one-horned rhino in the world.

The park currently has a rhino population well over 2,000 as against just 30 in the 1930s.

“The documentary would showcase the success story of rhino conservation at Kaziranga,” a forest official said.

Protection of rhinos at Kaziranga had been dubbed the greatest conservation story of the century by the Assam government. Dispur has earmarked a plan — Vision 2020 — to the increase rhino population by shifting the animal from Kaziranga to other national parks.

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