Regional Indian films about wildlife carry a specificity that mainstream Bollywood struggles to match. From Tamil Nadu’s forest rangers to Kerala’s contested buffer zones and the streaming era’s new ambitions.
Odisha
India’s eastern coastline and its island territories are, in documentary terms, some of the most ecologically significant and most overlooked landscapes in the country.
India has close to 30 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises. Seventeen of them carry Schedule I protection under the Wildlife Protection Act — the same schedule that covers tigers. Most people have never heard of a single one.
A honey badger entered Khudputli village in Mayurbhanj, Odisha and attacked five people over 24 hours before forest teams and the Wildlife Trust of India caught it.
Growing crocodile population is thanks to steps taken as far back as 1975
Wildlife Trust’s Program Provides Hands-on Training in Rescue and Rehabilitation of Animals