Silent Sentinel

This photo was captured when I was volunteering and working during a tiger combing operation with department staff at Bandipur Tiger Reserve. During the search, kumki elephants and senior officers were on duty. I came across this magnificent tusker grazing on the hills very close to human settlements and the forest buffer zone. These photos I captured are unique and have no duplicates in the field of nature conservation or documentation to date. All the photographs have been used to raise conservation awareness and promote it.