(10 Nov 2010) SHOTLIST
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Cat Tien National park, Dong Nai province, Vietnam - 18-19 August 2010
1. Wide of Dong Nai river
2. Mid and pan of fisherman sailing boat on Dong Nai river
3. Mid of trees on sunrise
4. Wide of Cat Tien National Park's area
5. Wide of Tuong Mountain in Cat Tien National Park's area
6. Mid of rangers: Pham Quoc Vinh (front) and Luong Van Bao patrolling in the jungle
7. Mid of ranger holding device
9. Wide of jungle
10. Mid of rangers cutting bamboo branches in the jungle to clear the path
11. Mid of trees
12. Mid up of rhino's hoof print
13. High shot of Tran Van Thanh, director of Cat Tien National Park walking
14. Low shot of Tran Van Thanh, director of Cat Tien National Park talking
15. SOUNDBITE: (Vietnamese) Tran Van Thanh, director of Cat Tien National Park ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
Poaching, invading forest land for cultivation and logging will directly affect the rhinos because it affects their habitat. For example, shooting a rhino is a direct cause of death but also behaviour such as exploiting wood and bamboo in the forest affects them because they don't like the impact or effects from humans, nearby."
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16. Various still photos of a rhino in Cat Tien National Park
17. Various stills of plaster hoof print samples of rhinos in Cat Tien National Park
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Cat Tien National park, Dong Nai province, Vietnam - 18-19 August 2010
18. Mid of rangers patrolling
19. Wide of jungle
20. Mid of rangers patrolling
21. Mid of jungle
LEAD IN :
The Javan rhino, once the most widespread of Asian rhinoceroses, is today the most threatened of five species.
Conservationists say poachers, habitat destruction and competition for food with other species are driving numbers down, plus the ever present demand for rhino horns for traditional Chinese medicines.
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There are fewer than fifty Javan rhinos left on the planet according to the International Rhino Foundation
The Javan rhino weighs 5,000 pounds (2,300 kilograms) and measures more than 10 feet (3 meters) in length. Conservation groups say it is the world's most endangered mammal.
Some of these rare mammals are located in Ujung Kulon area of Indonesia and a smaller group in the Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam.
The Cat Tien National Park, about 150 kms north of Ho Chi Minh City, covers three different provinces: Dong Nai, Lam Dong and Binh Phuoc, is where the first photograph of this rare Rhino was caught on camera in 1999.
A Rhino's carcass was found with its horn cut off by a team of national park rangers on April 29, 2010.
Authorities believed it could have died more than three months prior to the find.
Rhino horns are high on the traditional Asian medicine wish list on the black market.
The increasingly sophisticated poaching is targeted at body parts, especially horns, which are believed to have medical abilities.
This illegal trade caused worldwide rhino poaching to hit a 15-year high in 2009, according to World Wildlife Fund.
In many Asian countries like China, South Korea and Vietnam, the use of rhino horns for traditional medicine is primarily believed to be effective for the treatment of a variety of ailments ranging from fevers, epilepsy, strokes and cancers.
The park director, Tran Van Thanh, has been working in Cat Tien rhino conversation for around 15 years, yet he has seen only hoof prints and droppings.
Encouragingly, efforts to save the Javan rhino have met with some success in the past.
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