Design a poster or write a letter to be sent to all the members of your organization persuading people that your 3 priority species must be saved.Did you know?
Read the following text and make a resume of it:
I saw my first tiger in a national park in India. It was a young male and he was drinking at a waterhole. He raised his head slowly and stared at us for a minute. Then he turned his back on us and disappeared quickly into the jungle. Twenty years ago the tiger was in trouble. In India its numbers were around 1800. Then the Indian government launched Project Tiger, which set up national parks all over the country. Poaches still hunt the tiger illegally but at least it is no longer in ganger of extinction. In Africa the most important species is the elephant, the world’s largest living mammal. In 1979 there were 1,3 million elephants there. Ten years later numbers were down to fewer than 600 000 and still falling. Conservationists warned that the species could be extinct soon. But slowly the situation changed. In July 1989 Kenya’s President Moi publicly burnt his country’s stock of ivory, and towards the end of 1989 the world agreed to ban the ivory trade completely. Since then the demand for ivory has fallen sharply and elephant numbers in Kenya and Tanzania are increasing rapidly. In Kenya’s vast Tsavo national park breeding herds of elephants is a common sight, the new babies hurrying to keep up with their mothers. Africa has also lost 99 per cent of its black rhinos last century. About twenty years ago there were only 11 rhinos left in Kenya’s Masai Mara national reserve. Today numbers have tripled. On the other side of the world the grey whales of Baja California nearly disappeared last century. Fortunately the US Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972 saved them. The same year Mexico created the world’s first whale sanctuary on the west coast of Baja. The grey whales recovered quickly. Today there are perhaps 20 000 and these gentle giants are now worth far more alive than dead. The reason is whale-watching, an American craze for tourists. All over the world other rare species continue to receive protection; giant tortoises in the Galapagos, pink pigeons in Mauritius. In America you can hear the song of the timber wolf, and see the mountain lion in the canyons and high forests. Suddenly wildlife is good for the tourists trade. And tourism – provided it takes only pictures and leaves only footprints – is good for the national parks. If wildlife can be seen to be paying its way, then its chance of survival will be much greater.
First printed in British Airways High Life magazine. Notes: 1. to launch начинать, запускать 2. poacher браконьер 3. stock запас 4. ivory слоновая кость 5. to breed (bred,bred) разводить 6. herd стадо 7. rhino носорог 8.whale кит 9. sanctuary убежище 10. tortoise черепаха(сухопутная) 11. pigeon голубь Match the following words with the definitions: 1..tiger 2. elephant 3.rhino 4. whale 5. tortoise 6. pigeon 7. wolf 8.lion
f) large, strong flesh-eating animal found in Africa and S.Asia called “the King of Beasts” because of its fine appearance and courage. g) kinds of large sea- animal some of which are hunted for their oil. h) Large, fierce animal of the cat family, yellow-skinned, with black stripes, found in Asia. i) Bird, wild or tame, of the dove family. j) Slow-moving, four-legged land (and fresh-water) varieties of turtle with hard shell. k) Thick-skinned, heavily built animal of Africa and Asia with one or two horns on the snout. l) Largest four-footed animal now living, with curved ivory tusks and a long trunk. m) Wild, flesh-eating animal of the dog family, hunting in packs.
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