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  野生動物專家試圖轉移 500 頭生活在非洲馬拉維兩個野生保護園區內的大象。此遷徙計劃從下月開始，目的是為了幫助增加野生大象的總數。以下是 Richard Hamilton 的報道。

A century ago there were five million elephants in Africa. Today there are fewer than 470,000. Populations have been decimated by habitat loss and poaching. But two parks in Malawi – Liwonde and Majete – have managed to keep the poachers out and are actually overcrowded.

The charity African Parks is managing the move to the more empty Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve.

The elephants will be drugged and loaded onto trucks. Other animals will also be introduced to the reserve, including buffalo, zebra and impala. African Parks hopes this man-made migration will increase tourism in Malawi, which is one of the continent's poorest nations.

It's also a welcome glimmer of hope amid a wider picture of poaching, destruction and decline.

詞匯表

decimated 被大量殺戮
habitat loss 棲息地缺失
poaching 偷獵
poachers 偷獵者
overcrowded 過分擁擠的
charity 慈善機構，慈善組織
(a) glimmer of hope 一絲希望

測驗

請聽報道并回答下列問題。

1. What has led to a decline in the number of elephants in Africa?

2. How will experts prevent the animals from hurting others or themselves as they are being moved?

3. True or false??The elephants are being moved to a new reserve because they might find more food there.

4. What does the reporter mean by 'man-made migration'?

答案

1. What has led to a decline in the number of elephants in Africa?
Habitat loss and poaching.

2. How will experts prevent the animals from hurting others or themselves as they are being moved?
They will drug the elephants to make them calmer.

3. True or false? The elephants are being moved to a new reserve because they might find more food there.
True. If the park where the elephants are now is overcrowded there might not be enough food for all the elephants there. The new reserve might have more food among other things.?

4. What does the reporter mean by 'man-made migration'?
He means that the move from one park to another – the migration – is not initiated by the elephants themselves. The animals are going to be taken to another place by men in trucks.