From poacher to ranger: Saving China’s Siberian tigers


In this picture taken on August 24, 2017, Liang Fengen, a ranger at the Nuanquan River Forestry Centre, shows a heat sensor camera as he surveys an area in Suiyang town, Mudanjiang municipality. -AFP

SUIYANG: In the northern mountains bordering Russia, everyone knew the spry Chinese man as a skilled and ruthless hunter -- the kind who once killed a mother black bear as her cubs looked on.

But instead of stalking the woods for prey, Liang Fengen now roams the hills without a rifle, working as a ranger to save the area’s endangered Siberian tiger population and protect other wildlife.

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