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Wildlife Conservation
In my children's lifetimes, I
believe gorillas, chimpanzees
and orangutans ( 猩猩 ) will
all become extinct in the wild.
So the question we have to
ask ourselves is this: do we
want our children to see only
in zoos what used to exist in
the real world? It is the great
apes that will disappear first,
because there are so few of
them left, and because they're
so vulnerable to changes in
their habitats.
Many of the threats to
these animals result from a
global economy and not local
pressures. The threat to the
orangutans in Indonesia, for
example, is largely a result of
deforestation and the risks to
apes and chimpanzees in
Africa result from the timber
trade and the demand for
bush-meat. The two work
together: logging opens up
the forest, which means that
the bush-meat can be got out
fast, to Kinshasa or to
London.
If we want to avoid the
disaster, people in developed
countries will have to take a
global perspective and accept
responsibility for the damage
export crops, such as timber,
coffee, cut flowers or even
green beans, do to the
environment. The challenge
is to avoid simply imposing
Western attitudes on local
peoples.
Already there are no truly
wild places left in the world.
Looking at wildlife has
become the preserve of the
middle classes over the last
20-odd years, and as wild
animals become even rarer,
so more tourists want to see
them. But tourism alone
plainly cannot conserve the
world's animals; economic
development is the priority.
For the future, I suspect
that if you really want to do
something about wildlife
conservation, you would be
better off putting your money
into women's education
rather than just into the
protection of flagship species.
Women often bear the direct
costs of wildlife conflict;
their knowledge of how to
deal with conflict and how to
control their own
reproductive destinies may
yet determine the survival of
many threatened species.
Choose the best answers
to the following questions.
1.
Why will the great apes
become extinct in
the wild first?
A.
Because the great apes
are moving away from
the wild life
conservation areas.
B.
Because the great apes
are unable to survive any
natural disasters.
C.
Because more and more
great apes are kept in
zoos.
D.
Because the great apes
are unadaptable to
changes in the
environment.
2.
In the second paragraph,
the word
.
A.
the process of hunting
for wildlife in forests
B.
adventures in forests
C.
the process of removing
forests from a place
D.
the exploration of forests
3. According to the passage,
all of the
following statements are
true except _________
A.
the development of
tourism helps to conserve
the wildlife
B.
developed countries
should be aware of the
damage export crops do
to the environment
C.
all the threats to
animals result from local
pressures alone
D.
the timber trade and the
demand for bush-meat
risk the lives of primates
in Africa
4. We can infer from the
fourth paragraph that
A.
it is the m iddle class
that should take more
responsibility for
animal conservation
B.
compared
tourism is
with
more
economic development,
important in animal
conservation
C.
in order to conserve wild
animals, economic
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