From 27 Rhinos Killed a Year to Zero: How an IFS Officer Took on Poaching Gangs in Kaziranga
Reported byThe Better India ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
Kaziranga National Park achieved zero rhino poaching in 2022—the first poaching-free year in 45 years—after IFS officer Sandeep Kumar and forest officials implemented coordinated intelligence and enforcement treating poaching as organized crime, reducing poaching from 27 deaths annually in 2013–2014 to zero.
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