Dr. Susie Ellis to speak at the Widlife Conservation Film Festival in New York

IRF Executive Director Dr. Susie Ellis will give an update on the world’s rhinos and introduce the world premiere of the film Rhinoceroses: The Curse of the Magic Horn by Spanish film maker Esteban Suchowolski at 8 pm, Sunday, October 20th at the New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in Manhattan.
 
 

Rhinoceroses: The Curse of the Magic Horn
Explora Films
52 minutes
Country: Spain
* World Premiere
Through three different stories we will get to know the variety, habits and threats of all species of rhinoceroses that still live on the planet. We will meet a young black rhino chosen to repopulate a territory in Kenya where poachers have made its entire species disappear. In India, a rhino is facing a more limited world day by day, sharing their habitat with elephants and tigers. Finally, we get deep in the jungles of Borneo to follow the traces of the most scarce and elusive of all, a Sumatran rhino, desperately seeking a mate in the jungle where those animals are becoming a yearning memory. In this documentary we will know the five living species of rhinos that still inhabit the planet: the White, the Black, the Indian, Javan and Sumatran rhinoceroses.
 
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