Living with the park

Film Maker/Director: Dr. Susan Sharma

Duration: 24 Mins

Language: English

Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan is perhaps the most popular tourist destination to watch tigers in the wild. But despite the tourist dollars, the Park’s main attraction, the Bengal Tiger is in danger of getting decimated here. This film tries to look at the popular tiger reserve as an integrated universe, comprising its animals and people in the adjoining areas. The forest connects the two and neither one can flourish without the other. So is the policy of segregating the park as a preserve for animals alienating the people, who lived in harmony with the park for decades helping the Park. There are no quick answers. The camera shows people around the park voicing their pride in and reservations about the Park. Is the Park management listening? For in the interest of preservation it seems foolish to ignore the distilled wisdom of people whose lives are in tune with nature. Message of the film is “Take the tigers to the future generations”. It can be done only by involving the local people in protecting the park.