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
address-complete signal with charge
AIW
antiresonance frequency
arborine
augurist
basswood
bell punch
bending cylinder efficient stroke
bicyclobutane
bidirectional buffer circuits
biffures
blue litmus paper
bread industry
building-maintenance
cam type power plant
capillary hydrodynamics
Caykara
chaldrons
checking you out
clearness test
clears off
Coelacanthiformes
cotectic surface
council for environmental education
Croomia japonica
direct reading calculator
directional coil
disabled motor switch
diversity of status
drawing implement
dyskinesia algera
electronic sports
fibrocaseous
fluctuable
frog spawn fermentation
ganglia nervi trigemini
gap theorem
geminated
glossocoma
GQL
grazing acreage
groggers
ground water podsol soil
group demography
hair lotion
Hertzian wave(s)
heterogeneous soil
hillends
Hualin
institutional linguistics
kidneyshells
klausner
kraits
landspout
leamy
long skirt crown
low power alarm set point
lucanus kanoi piceus
m?ng pak
manifdder
Market Drayton
mersolite
misreferences
modulation transmitter
multlvariate analysis
myotoxic
nay-sayers
operator delay
oriental bush cherries
photometric binary
pictoresque
pin exploration
plate pewter
plinius
red-breasted nuthatch
registration service
regworme
rehatting
restare
restrictor-plate
right over movables
Schaeffer's diagram
scotch pines
seven-card stud
Snickers pie
sodium sulfantimoniate
soil sample test
solo running
solvent flattening
space biochemistry
stabilization by compaction
steam projection system
still shell
stoomp
substitution arrangement
supporting-actress
swivel control head
thoracic cages
timelinesses
uns-dimethylhydrazine
water-jacket outer wall
wheal reaction