With regard to the conservation of wild animals in China, the biggest present threat is still the adverse trend of loss and deterioration of natural habitat.

对于中国的野生动物保护来说，当前最大的威胁还是栖息地的丧失和栖息环境的恶劣趋势。

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The herders' response was to fall back on small, uneconomic networks of family or friends, to breed ever more animals with less regard to their quality (numbers rose to a record 34m in 1999), and to move closer to towns.

ECONOMIST: Nomadism in Mongolia