From TCD.com:
Born into a ranching family, Juan Guillermo Garcés was on the path to do the same, but a close encounter with death altered the course of his life as he vowed to preserve rather than destroy.
As detailed by the Guardian, Garcés and his brother started a fire to clear land, but the flames nearly overtook them when the wind suddenly changed direction. “I felt death there in the flames,” he told the Guardian. “When you’re about to be burned alive, you become painfully aware of the destruction you have caused.” Garcés made it his life’s mission to heal and founded the Río Claro Nature Reserve — a 7,400-acre paradise filled with rare and endemic wildlife, including more than 100 newly discovered species.