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In 2009, realizing that her efforts towards conservation in the Tost region were threatened by mining interests, she began to focus her attention on political initiatives, mobilizing the local community to campaign for the protection of the landscape and its snow leopards. Her efforts continued year
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Mongolian parliament to designate the Tost Mountains a State Protected Area in 2016, as 80% of its deputies voting in favour of the proposal. Now known as the Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve, all the mining licences in the area have since been cancelled.
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Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Her recent work focuses on slow leopard depredation. “We wanted to work with the herders, to bring them around by addressing the economic losses they suffered from the leopards,” said
Agvaantseren in a
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Alexander, Justine Shanti; Agvaantseren, Bayarjargal; Gongor, Enkhtuvshin; Mijiddorj, Tserennadmid Nadia; Piaopiao, Tang; Redpath, Stephen; Young, Juliette; Mishra, Charudutt (2021-04-12).
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