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Snow Leopard Trust posthumously awards Mongolian conservation ranger
SocietyUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Snow Leopard Trust has posthumously awarded T.Lkhagvasumberel (Sumbee), a biologist who worked as a conservation ranger for international snow leopard trust and was found dead last November 11. Name of the award, which goes to the best researchers in the field of protecting snow leopards, is Helen Freeman Award.
A ceremony ran January 12 for handing the award to his family. Before receiving it, the family and friends paid tribute to late Sumbee by lighting offering lamps.
Snow Leopard Trust is giving this award in recognition for his outstanding research works in the Gobi about snow leopards and their prey. The trust researchers said they have been developing plans to immortalize Sumbee’s good deeds.
