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Why Kill a Snow Leopard Conservation Ranger? Energy Sprawl and Land-Use Conflict
By Joseph M. Kiesecker / On October 27th, 2017
View from a mountain top in Khan Khentii Protected Area, Khuh Nuur, Mongolia. Photo © Nick Hall
A mysterious and untimely death is not what first comes to mind when I think about wildlife conservation. But the death of conservation ranger Lkhagvasumberel (Sumbee) Tumursukh, who worked with the Mongolian Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, is a mystery indeed.