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An Unlikely Ambassador: Ghana Gurung on Snow Leopards and Community Resilience

Posted: 23 Nov 2017 09:01 PM PST

As a child growing up in Nepal's mountainous Upper Mustang region, Ghana Gurung understood that his survival depended on the mountains and his community. Today, as senior conservation program director at World Wildlife Fund-Nepal, he works to protect the endangered and elusive snow leopard by improving local communities' livelihoods and the mountains' ecosystem. As a […] Related posts: Thermometers of Change: Snow Leopard Diplomacy in Asia's High Mountains Backdraft #6: Jesse Ribot on...

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