Wildlife photographer Ian Redmond went eye-to-eye with the rare and bizarre-looking gharial in Nepal.<br /><br />The gharial is a species of crocodile and has been listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.<br /><br />Ian told Newsflare: "Its numbers are slowly recovering thanks to captive breeding centres such as this one in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. <br /><br />"Once released into their dwindling natural habitat, however, gharials face many dangers, including abandoned fishing nets - look closely at the right-hand gharial in the Rapti River at the end of this video and you'll see its jaws are tangled in nylon netting. <br /><br />"Without the intervention of the park rangers it would slowly starve to death - another victim of plastic pollution."
