Aug 18, 2026
✦The Times of India
From a 'near-death' mistake to a wildlife paradise: How one man spent 50 years healing the forest he once burned.
In the 1960s, a 17-year-old rancher named Juan Guillermo Garcés nearly died while burning a Colombian forest. This event changed his life, and he later lived in a cave to protect the land. He turned 7,400 acres into a wildlife refuge, helping nature return to the area for many years.