新西兰英语 816 Conservation Week

Conservation Week starts tomorrow. During that week, DOC the Department of Conservation would like New Zealanders to celebrate our special places and our native wildlife. What are our special places? Our National Parks are some of our special places.

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Soil Conservation Methods

AGRICULTURE REPORT - February 5, 2002: Soil Conservation Methods By Gary Garriott 04 Feb 2002, 18:39 UTC This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Soil conservation efforts protect soil from

VOA慢速英语2003年-农业与经济 Soil Conservation Meth

By Gary Garriott Broadcast: July 29, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Soil conservation efforts protect soil from wind and water that can blow or wash it away.

2006年VOA标准英语-Conservation Efforts in Congo Basin Appear Effe

By Lisa Bryant Paris 23 June 2006 A new assessment of Africa's massive Congo Basin rain forest finds that it is less degraded than environmentalists feared. The findings were announced in Paris, where African and Western officials ended a two-day co

科学美国人60秒 SSS A Fruitful Experiment in Land Conservation

A Fruitful Experiment in Land Conservation 橘子皮的神奇作用 In the fight to conserve tropical rainforests, here's a tool you don't often hear about: orange peels. Specifically, 12,000 tons of them, dumped on the land. You don't usually associ

Bush Discusses Conservation and the Environment(2009-1-6)

President Bush Discusses Conservation and the Environment THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Thank you for coming, and Happy New Year. Laura and I thank all of our distinguished guests, starting with members of my Cabinet -- Secretary K

The Oil Painting

An elderly woman decided to have her portrait painted. She told the the artist.... .....Paint me with diamond earrings, a diamond necklace, emerald bracelets(绿宝石手镯）, a ruby（红宝石） broach, and gold Rolex（劳力士手表）. But y

VOA标准英语2008年-US Oil Companies Finding More Oil in Old Fields

The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

VOA标准英语2012--Conservation Project at Risk from Mai Mai Attack

Conservation Project at Risk from Mai Mai Attack The hunt continues for the Mai Mai militia that attacked a DRC conservation project in June. Six people were killed, as well as 14 endangered animals called Okapi, or forest giraffe. The attack occurre

VOA标准英语2012--Linking Conservation and Human Rights

Linking Conservation and Human Rights 美国慈善家捐助莫桑比克戈龙戈萨国家公园 An American entrepreneur says there is a link between conservation and human rights. Gregory Carr says thats why he pledged $40 million to rebuild Mozambi

VOA标准英语2010年-Conservation Groups in Coastal Kenya W

Kenya's ocean waters are home to five out of the world's eight species of turtles. All are classified as either endangered or critically endangered, and are threatened by poaching, fishing nets, development and pollution. The conservation groups Wata

VOA标准英语2011--Love of Big Cats Sparks Conservation Project

Love of Big Cats Sparks Conservation Project Dale Andersons love affair with big cats goes back to junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, when a mountain lion cub was brought to his seventh grade classroom. And ever since then Ive had a desire

VOA标准英语2015--Conservation Groups Unveil Regional Action Plan to Save Great Apes

Conservation Groups Unveil Regional Action Plan to Save Great Apes A new action plan has been unveiled to protect Central Africas gorillas and chimpanzees. It outlines threats to the great apes across six countries. The regional action plan is a join

雅思写作：Environmental Conservation

雅思写作真题 Nowadays, environmental problems are too big to be managed by individual persons or individual countries. In other words, it is an international problem. To what extent do you agree or disagree? 原创范文 If human beings want to

新西兰英语 196 Gold and Oil Mining

The government will consider mining in some areas where there are national parks. The Minister for Energy and Resources, Gerry Brownlee, said that New Zealand is a country which is rich in minerals. In 2008, we exported $2 billion worth of coal, meta

BP discovers new oil in Gulf of Mexico

HOUSTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP announced Wednesday it had a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. An appraisal well the company drilled in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico found

Saudis Set to Boost Oil Production

Saudi Arabia is signaling that it is going to boost its supply of oil on its own after failing to convince other oil producers to jointly agree to more production. Several news agencies reported Saturday that the Saudis could increase their oil produ

China to Invest 1.8 Trillion Yuan in Water Conservation

China's Ministry of Water Resources says the country is to invest 1.8 trillion yuan, or 280 billion US dollars, in water conservation in the coming five years. The country is also aiming to double its annual investment on water projects. Shuangfeng h

Oil rises on tighter supply outlook

NEW YORK, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices rose on Friday as supplies tended to be tight on new Iran sanctions and production problems in North Sea. There was news on Thursday saying that the Obama administration expanded sanctions on Iran, in an eff

Nepal, China agree to work together for forest conservation

KATHMANDU, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Nepal and China have agreed to strengthen and enhance the coordination in the fields of forest conservation and management. A joint meeting between the two neighbors was held in Kathmandu from Feb. 22 for the first time