一群自然保护生物学家提出了一个雄心勃勃的计划——或者有人会说，这是一个激进的计划——即，把大型脊椎动物或巨型动物包含在计划中，作为修复部分损害的一种方法。

As a way of repairing some of that damage, a group of conservation biologists has proposed an ambitious, or some might say, a radical plan, involving large vertebrates, or, megafauna.

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它们是我所说的单一物种保护的象征：即，侧重于一种动物。

They are emblematic of what I would call single-species conservation: ie a focus on one animal.

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世界自然保护联盟把它列为“濒危”动物，在野外两步就能使它灭绝，即因为它的栖息地森林被砍伐和烧毁以用来种植农作物。

IUCN classified it as "endangered" — two steps from extinction in the wild — because its habitat is being destroyed by slash-and-burn farming.

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