Panthera

In 2010, while photographing the front lines of tiger conservation in Kaziranga National Park in Northeast India, Panthera’s Media Director and National Geographic photographer, Steve Winter, and his crew had a very close encounter with a territorial rhinoceros, which was luckily caught on video. Watch an exciting clip of this rhino chasing the jeep carrying Steve and his crew as they sped away.

Steve’s photos of the wildlife and people of Kaziranga National Park were featured in the National Geographic Magazine article, India's Grassland Kingdom, published in August of 2010. In addition, Steve received the 2011 Global Vision Award from Pictures of the Year International for a collection of 40 of these images. He was also awarded the Grand Prize in all categories and First Prize in the Nature and Societies Category from the 2011 Nature Images Awards. Among the captivating images are a tiger in tall grass staring down the camera, curious one-horned Indian rhinos, and blindfolded poachers on their way to interrogation at the park’s ranger station after being apprehended for targeting rhinos for their horns and tigers for their body parts.

Today, Panthera is working in east India with Aaranyak, an Indian NGO which has unique access to essential tiger sites. In 2011, efforts have expanded to two tiger reserves, Similipal and Nagarjunasagar Srisalam, in east India (Orissa and Andhra Pradesh) which until now were entirely unstudied.

Learn about Panthera’s work to save the Endangered tiger through the Tigers Forever program, Save the Tiger Fund, and Tiger Corridor Initiative.

Click here to read the National Geographic article, see Steve's photos and watch another video of Steve and his crew being charged by a rhino as they sat atop an elephant.

Read Panthera’s press release about Steve’s Pictures of the Year International award.

Watch videos of Steve describing how he captured images of tigers in Kaziranga National Park.

Visit Aaranyak's website.