时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:2010年VOA慢速英语(七)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.


When farmers and wild animals share land, conflicts can be hard to prevent. But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is trying to help.


The FAO and other groups are developing what they call the Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Toolkit. This toolkit is a collection of advice and information that farmers in southern Africa have been testing.


Wild animals are considered a top problem for the physical and economic security of rural populations in Africa.


FAO official Rene Czudek says the main aim is to provide low-cost methods to deal with wild animals without harming them.


For example, some farmers in Kenya use donkeys to guard against lions and cheetahs 1.


In Zambia and Mozambique, crocodiles are blamed for more deaths than any other animal. Nile crocodiles kill an estimated three hundred people each year in Mozambique alone.


Strong fencing at watering points can offer protection. And people should always enter the water several at a time, in groups armed with weapons like sticks and stones, axes and spears.



A field destroyed by wild elephants in Rangapara, in India


But the FAO also points out that crocodile attacks are less likely in places that have not been overfished.


The toolkit also has ideas to control baboons 3. These large monkeys raid crops and they can kill sheep and other livestock 4.


One suggestion is to remove the center from a loaf of bread and hide a snake inside -- a live one if possible. Baboons have a fear of snakes. They also have good memories. Rene Czudek at the FAO says a baboon 2 frightened by a snake sandwich will probably not come back.


Another animal with a good memory -- the elephant -- often raids field crops, especially maize 5 and cassava. Mr. Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.


Did you know elephants hate chili 6 pepper?


Farmers can grind pepper, mix it with elephant waste and form bricks. The idea is to burn these bricks around the edges of fields to keep elephants away. Farmers can also grow fields of chili peppers -- and sell the surplus.


Another way to control elephants is with a plastic gun called the Mhiripiri Bomber 7. It fires balls that burst and release a chili solution when they hit the elephant's skin.


You might also be able to stop an elephant or a hippopotamus 8 by shining lights in their eyes.


The FAO toolkit is supposed to be available online soon. People will be able to comment on the suggestions and offer their own.


And that’s the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. I’m Bob Doughty

 



1 cheetahs
n.(奔跑极快的)非洲猎豹( cheetah的名词复数 )
  • Unlike lions or cheetahs, leopards are secretive, solitary cats. 花豹不像狮子或印度豹,是属于较神秘而隐居的大猫。 来自互联网
  • Among this lot are cheetahs, lions, leopards, rhinoceroses, spotted hyenas and elephants. 印度豹、狮子、花豹、犀牛、斑点土狼、大象等,都是此地的居民。 来自互联网
2 baboon
n.狒狒
  • A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.狒狒是一种生活在非洲的大猴子。
  • As long as the baboon holds on to what it wants,it's trapped.只要狒狒紧抓住想要的东西不放手,它就会被牢牢困住。
3 baboons
n.狒狒( baboon的名词复数 )
  • Baboons could break branches and leaders. 狒狒会折断侧枝和顶梢。 来自辞典例句
  • And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类,就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
4 livestock
n.家畜,牲畜
  • Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
  • The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。
5 maize
n.玉米
  • There's a field planted with maize behind the house.房子后面有一块玉米地。
  • We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.这块地可以种高粱或玉米。
6 chili
n.辣椒
  • He helped himself to another two small spoonfuls of chili oil.他自己下手又加了两小勺辣椒油。
  • It has chocolate,chili,and other spices.有巧克力粉,辣椒,和其他的调味品。
7 bomber
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
8 hippopotamus
n.河马
  • The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
  • A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。
学英语单词
advanced country
anshen
arrow hole
as black as my hat
automatic ventricular contraction
bargaining books
beat head against
begoud
blearer
bodocks
boudinage
bulows
CADCAM
cardiac muscular tension
caudex medullaris
caustic addition pump
chain addressing
chondroconia
circuit boards
circumplanetary
class-b
co-use
commercial organization
communication oriented language
Cornellana
cotton bud
crisphead lettuces
denehole
digit zero symbol
Doringbos
double-seat stop valve
doughnut-like
dual functor
earth resistor
economic batch determination
esperson
extra x-ray reflection
fibrograph
fixed claw
Fjallbacka
folliculitis abscedens et suffodiens
formalist
from scratch
front hanger
guard rows
hammered into
heles
high temperature detector
histotoxin
HTCPCP
Humiriaceae
Jordanes
Kilombero Valley
laplacians
large volume
line asynchronous
Lizars' line
logist
lorentz reciprocal theorem
low-probability
M.F.H.
May games
neurooncological
occipitoparietal suture
pajares
pizzaiola
Pollizer's disease
Probenid
Quirindi
rabkrins
reactor shutdown margin
recovered steam
routemasters
salutational
schlieren projection system
scutellinia subhirtella
secure transaction
select seed
self-interstitial defect
series of tubes
six - day war
slip through
slog through
slow rake-stirrer
split-fingered fastball
spraid concrete
standard random walk
steam generating system
stream rapids community
sugar carrier
Tower City
triphosphates
tswe
tv-m
undermarks
ventricular systole time
white mulberry scale
White, Patrick
yawpan
zabillion
zaltman
Zotepinum