时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:自然探索


英语课

34 畜牧业与野生动植物保护


DATE=6/8/01
TITLE=ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Farming and Wildlife Protection
BYLINE=Cynthia Kirk


(Start at 59" )This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT.
A new report says almost half of the world's seventeen-thousand (1)wildlife protected areas are being heavily used for farming. The report says clearing and using land for agriculture are causing many kinds of plants and animals to disappear. It says farmers must use better farming methods that provide food while protecting wildlife.  
The findings 1 are part of a (2)joint report by an agricultural (3)organization called Future Harvest and the World (4) Conservation Union. The World Conservation Union is a group of ten-thousand scientists that advises governments about wildlife. 
Experts say ten percent of the land on Earth has been designed to protect wildlife.  Yet these nature preserves often share common ground with farms in many poor countries.  Many of these areas are where animal (5) species 2 are most at risk.  Experts say many species in (6) preserves are dying 3 because of the agricultural areas that surround them.
This is because many animals need to move to other places to survive. The limited space in nature preserves cannot fill this need. The lands that would be needed to expand protected areas already are being used to grow food for local people and support local economies. Experts say half of the animal species in the preserves could be lost because their populations are too small to (7) guarantee their survival 4.
More than one-thousand-million people live in twenty-five areas where the most endangered animals are found. Many people living in those areas do not have enough food. So the land is heavily used for agriculture.
Experts say traditional farming methods used by poor people have destroyed half the world's (8) tropical 5 forests.  They say more than half of the remaining species in the world's forests might disappear in the next fifty years. They say this might happen if forest (9) destruction 6 continues at the present rates.
The World Conservation Union report says the traditional methods of protecting wildlife by trying to keep people out of nature preserves have failed.  The report calls for larger harvests on existing (10) cropland.  It calls for less agricultural pollution. And it calls on farmers to create wildlife (11)environments on or near their farms and link them with existing wildlife preserves.
This VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT was written by Cynthia Kirk.
This is Steve Ember.



(1)  wildlife [5waIldlaIf]n.野生动植物
(2)  joint [ dVCint ] adj.联合的
(3) organization [ 7C:^Enai5zeiFEn ]n.组织, 机构, 团体
(4) conservation [9kRnsE5veiF[n] n.保存, 保持, 守恒
(5) species [ `spi:Fiz] n.种类
(6) preserve [pri`z[:v] vt.保护, 保持, 保存, 保藏
(7) guarantee [9gAr[n`ti:] n.保证, 保证书, 担保, 抵押品 vt.保证, 担保
(8) tropical [`trRpikl] adj.热带的
(9) destruction [dis`trQkF[n] n.破坏, 毁灭
(10) cropland [`krRplAnd] n.农田, 植作物之农地
(11) environment [ in5vaiErEnmEnt ]n.环境, 外界


 



n.发现物( finding的名词复数 );调查(或研究)的结果;(陪审团的)裁决
  • It behoves us to study these findings carefully. 我们理应认真研究这些发现。
  • Their findings have been widely disseminated . 他们的研究成果已经广为传播。
n.物种,种群
  • Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗?
  • This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。
adj.垂死的,临终的
  • He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
  • She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子,那里有一个垂死的人。
n.留住生命,生存,残存,幸存者
  • The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子,说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
  • The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。
adj.热带的,热带的,炎热的
  • You must grow these tropical flowers in a glasshouse.你必须把这些热带花卉种在温室里。
  • This disease is widespread in tropical areas.这种疾病在热带地区蔓延很广。
n.破坏,毁灭,消灭
  • The enemy bombs caused widespread destruction.敌人的炸弹造成大面积的破坏。
  • Overconfidence was his destruction.自负是他垮台的原因。
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a Jamie
accordance
acquire knowledge
Annual Return Rules
bayton
bearing marker control
benzilonium bromide
besandaled
broad crested weir
byssal gape
candle-snuff
chills and fevers
chime barrel
christodoulos
ciderish
citation of statute
clange
classifier
closure of rift
coarse drill
comigrating
concealed reflex
cone feeder
defrenne
differential refraction detector
excess reinsurance
export standard
fall into an ambush
femorohumeral index
Flechsig's tract
floating school
forward elevator pawl
freeze drying
galeano
gallbladder(GB)
generic software
Giacomuzzo
gjirokastra
graphical comparison
guide flange
gyrotron maser
haulin
hepatobiliary
hereditary epidermolysis bullosa
high molecular alcohol
high-rank graywacke
homogeneous polynomial
hot pneumatic type portable sprayer
hot-jacket
house organ
iconscope
independent self-concept
inhalation toxicology
johnnys
key-seat
La Alcarria
ladening
lateral nucleus of mammillary body
lie near sb's heart
linguaphones
liver parenchymal
loudspeakered
maintenance men
market analysis
Mnesithea mollicoma
Nam Sang Wai
navigational intelligence
nir yizhaq
oberea shimomurai
Or.
paper maker
patent green
piecewise regular function
power of life and death
PPKD
prosubiculum
quick cutting
recolorizations
Reenstierma antiserum
refuse disposal service
residential cells
ricinic
right heart failure
Roches
screw height control
self-condense
sight graticule
Sixto-Clementine
solvency determination
soul pain
Sphaeranthus senegalensis
stall-dive
subjectness
supernumerariness
technofascism
temporary swap file
throw something into relief
time down
valvular endocarditis
working regime of the maximum jet velocity
yellow elastic fiber
zoning intensity