Conservationist Trang Nguyen: 'Better to die before a gun barrel than in a hospital bed'
After surviving cancer at 23, conservationist Trang Nguyen dedicated her life to undercover investigations against wildlife trafficking, founding the Vietnam-based NGO WildAct.
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