畜牧业与野生动植物保护

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 findings¹ 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) species² are most at risk.  Experts say many species in (6) preserves are dying³ 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 survival⁴.
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) tropical⁵ 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) destruction⁶ 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

 

1 findings   

n.发现物( finding的名词复数 )；调查（或研究）的结果；（陪审团的）裁决

参考例句：

• 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。

2 species   

n.物种，种群

参考例句：

• 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。

3 dying   

adj.垂死的，临终的

参考例句：

• 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。

4 survival   

n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者

参考例句：

• 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。

5 tropical   

adj.热带的，热带的，炎热的

参考例句：

• 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。

6 destruction   

n.破坏，毁灭，消灭

参考例句：

• 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。