Times Evoke | Updated: Feb 12, 2021, 23:44 IST
Gunjan Menon is a conservation filmmaker focused on wildlife.
Gunjan Menon is a conservation filmmaker focused on wildlife. Her documentary film, ‘The Firefox Guardian’, showcased the endangered red panda. Writing for
Times Evoke Inspire, Gunjan discusses the threats faced by the russet panda, why she tackled forests, leeches and uphill treks searching for this elusive creature — and meeting a sleepy panda called ‘Chuck’:
I didn’t know pandas were red as well!”, my friend exclaimed when I expressed my desire to film red pandas. This wasn’t going to be easy — how was I going to convince people to care about the dwindling numbers of an animal they didn’t even know existed? Yet, saving the red panda had become my driving force, and I was determined to record its plight.