LOST LAND OF THE JAGUAR, an epic documentary on Guyana’s diverse wildlife population and large swath of jungle, has moved up to number 21, as one of the world’s most watched wildlife documentary. Produced in 2009 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a two part nature series, the documentary has progressed over the months as a favourite on international primetime television, in addition to earning a top spot at the covetedwww.topdocumentaryfilms.com, a web portal that features highly rated documentaries that has enjoyed a viewership of more than five million.
Since its first publication, cable networks statistics suggested that an average of six million viewers would have watched either episode of the documentary, as it screened on over 50 television networks in Europe that would have featured the show over the last 12 months.
According to Robyn Grantham, a senior communications officer at BBC London, the documentary is always well sought after by other networks globally, while clips from it have also been reused thousands of times as syncs for other documentaries, movies and other projects of a similar nature.
Grantham said that the documentary was undertaken by one of the company’s most experienced team of wildlife film makers, in addition to several weeks of unrelenting work to put it together in its current form.
The team members had comprised Britons Justine Evans, George McGavin, Gordon Buchanan, and Steve Backshall, who have since put Guyana on the good side of the global tourism map with their production of the “Lost Land of the Jaguar”.