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By combining AI-driven alerts with real-time human patrolling, IFS officer Varun Jain has helped reduce human-elephant conflicts in Chhattisgarh, saving lives and fostering coexistence.

SP Shahi’s contributions to the protection of wolves, and his role in bringing them back from the brink of extinction, are largely forgotten today. The forest officer was behind India’s only wolf sanctuary, Mahuadanr, in Jharkhand.

One lesson that forest officers today can learn from Fateh Singh Rathore’s life is that their loyalties should only be with the forests – and not politicians or superior officers.