It was a cold February day. Dangwen and his wildlife monitoring team patrolled (巡逻)along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. That day, they 【小题1】 (meet) 220 blue sheep and five white-lipped deer. Through the camera, they found a mother and two baby leopards (豹) — and the babies had grown much 【小题2】 (big) than three months earlier.

Dangwen comes from Yunta, a village located in Sanjiangyuan, Qinghai Province on the Tibetan Plateau. Sanjiangyuan serves as an important habitat 【小题3】 rich and unique species.

Dangwen is neither officially a researcher 【小题4】 an activist. But he has taken upon himself the task of monitoring local wildlife with a team of other villagers, as part of a conservation project driven by the Shanshui Conservation Center, 【小题5】 Beijing-based non-governmental organization. When the organization brought up the idea of 【小题6】 (organize) villagers to watch over wildlife and protect their lands, Dangwen volunteered 【小题7】 (immediate). Having grown up in the village, he knows very well the land, the river and the wildlife, and he is especially proud of the sacred mountains 【小题8】 are around all of them. This is the fourth year that Yunta villagers have carried out this monitoring, patrolled the village to identify poachers (偷猎者), and managed rubbish 【小题9】 (keep) the land and rivers clean.

Monitoring data shows that local wildlife 【小题10】 (population), including snow leopards, are increasing.