Documentary on hoolock gibbons to be produced
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) has reached an agreement with Global Science Production, a Hollywood film company, to produce a documentary on hoolock gibbons (Ulluk), an endangered species, reports UNB.
Filming for this documentary is scheduled to begin soon, WTB sources said. Footage will be gathered from forests throughout Bangladesh, which were once a favourite abode of the hoolock gibbon.
However, deforestation and human encroachment have brought these animals to the verge of extinction.
Dr Elliott Haimoff will produce this film supported by co-producer Corrin La Combe, cameraman Sam Oldham, and gibbon expert Alan Mootnick. They will be flown in from the United Kingdom and the United States.
The team will spend several weeks in Bangladesh shooting and interviewing local people, conservationists and authority figures to unravel the current situation of the remaining hoolock gibbon population of Bangladesh.
Filming for this documentary is scheduled to begin soon, WTB sources said. Footage will be gathered from forests throughout Bangladesh, which were once a favourite abode of the hoolock gibbon.
However, deforestation and human encroachment have brought these animals to the verge of extinction.
Dr Elliott Haimoff will produce this film supported by co-producer Corrin La Combe, cameraman Sam Oldham, and gibbon expert Alan Mootnick. They will be flown in from the United Kingdom and the United States.
The team will spend several weeks in Bangladesh shooting and interviewing local people, conservationists and authority figures to unravel the current situation of the remaining hoolock gibbon population of Bangladesh.