Mongolian woman awarded 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize
Ms. Bayarjargal, head of the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation and Snow Leopard Trust’s Mongolia Program Director, awarded the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize.
Ms. Bayarjargal, head of the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation and Snow Leopard Trust’s Mongolia Program Director, awarded the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize. The Prize was presented to Ms. Bayarjargal in recognition of her valuable contribution to protect the snow leopard habitat in Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve in the South Gobi Desert. In 2007, Ms. Bayarjargal founded the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation Mongolia while also assuming the role of Country Program Director for the Snow Leopard Trust. Ms. Bayarjargal and her team worked closely with Tost’s local communities to help create the 1.8 million-acre Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve in the Gobi Desert—a critical habitat for the endangered snow leopard—in April 2016. In support of these efforts, the Mongolian government cancelled all 37 mining licenses within the reserve. The Goldman Prize, also called the Green Nobel Prize, is the world’s most prestigious award for grassroots environmental activists.
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