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This is a snow leopard. Even though it's an endangered species, a new report says as many as 450 of them have been killed each year going all the way back to 2008.
这是一只雪豹。尽管这是一种濒危物种，新的报告显示每年多达450只雪豹被杀害，回归到2008年数据。
This is not good news because it's believed as few as 4,000 snow leopards are living in the wild. They can be found in the mountains of Central Asia.
这不是一个好消息，因为如今只有4,000只雪豹生活在野外。可以在中亚的山上找到它们。
Interestingly, a wildlife trade monitoring network called Traffic found the animals' pelts aren't the main reason they're poached.
有趣的是，野生动物贸易监控网络称动物皮毛不是它们遭偷猎的主要原因。
Instead, more than half the killings are from herders getting revenge against the leopards for killing their livestock.
相反，超过一半的杀戮来自牧民报复雪豹猎杀它们的牲畜。
To curb this, the report suggests governments do more to compensate farmers who lose their animals and give them the means to build better enclosures for their livestock.
为了抑制这一点，该报告建议政府更多的补偿丢失家畜的农民，并为它们提供方法，建造更好的牲畜围栏。
More than 90 percent of snow leopards are killed in the countries of China, Mongolia, Pakistan, India and Tajikistan.
超过百分之90的雪豹在中国、蒙古、巴基斯坦、印度和塔吉克斯坦被杀害。
There's at least one country trying to protect its small snow leopard population. The Kyrgyzstan government partnered with the Snow Leopard Trust in 2015 to create a wildlife sanctuary for the big cats.
至少有一个国家在试图保护雪豹种群。2015年吉尔吉斯斯坦政府与国际雪豹基金会合作，为这种大型猫科动物创造野生动物保护区。
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