One-Horned Rhino

For nearly four decades, Dimbeswar Das has patrolled Kaziranga’s forests, facing bullets, floods, and death threats to keep the one-horned rhino alive.

P Sivakumar, field director at Kaziranga national park created six wetlands to help wildlife access water and reduce man-animal conflict

“They risk their lives everyday working in difficult terrains and braving myriad hostile elements – poachers, encroachers, smugglers, mafias, human-wildlife conflict, health hazards in the form of water-borne diseases, forest fires and of course, accidental deaths by wild animals.”