Wildlife

Though better equipped now, he began his rescues with his bare hands, using just a blanket, parachute cloth, sticks and nets. #reallifehero

Various wildlife are slaughtered in their thousands every year in the name of rituals. She decided to do something about it!

"When the spiked shackles were cut from his legs, the relief brought tears to his eyes. His rescuers have tried to ensure that he never sheds a tear again."

“But what has undoubtedly weighed with the Nawabs of Junagadh in the past and carries weight also with me is that the forest is the last sanctuary of Indian lions,” said the last Nawab of Junagadh.

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.

“I remember once an 18-year-old boy was taken by his father and brother to hunt a tiger. The turn of events put him in the front line with the tiger.” What happened next could have changed the teenager's life.

Despite the fact that the poachers were armed with guns, were full-grown men, and outnumbered the two boys, Mukesh and Pukhraj confronted them.

"There seems to be something about India's soil that inspires conservation and humbles man,” wrote Padma Shri Kailash Sankhala, better known as India's Tiger Man. #UnsungHeroes

"I was alone that day and was trying to clear my path from the twigs and leaves in the forest. I suddenly looked up and right next to me was a tiger staring right at me." #EarthHeroes

From his courtship of Cleopatra, the prettiest leopard in the forest, to challenging Scarface, the alpha leopard, this magnificent panther's story will leave you mesmerised.