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For my presentation today, I want to tell you about how groups of elephants have been moved and settled in new reserves.
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For my presentation today, I want to tell you about how groups of elephants have been moved and settled in new reserves.
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This is known as translocation and has been carried out in Malawi,
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in Africa in recent years.
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The reason this is being done is because of overpopulation of elephants in some areas.
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Overpopulation is a good problem to have,
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and not one we tend to hear about very often.
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In Malawi's Majeti National Park,
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the elephant population had been wiped out by poachers,
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who killed the elephants for their ivory.
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But in 2003, the park was restocked and effective law enforcement was introduced.
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Since then, not a single elephant has been poached.
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In this safe environment, the elephant population boomed.
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Breeding went so well that there were more elephants than the park could support.
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This led to a number of problems.
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Firstly, there was more competition for food,
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which meant that some elephants were suffering from hunger.
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As there was a limit to the amount of food in the national park,
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some elephants began looking further afield.
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Elephants were routinely knocking down fences around the park,
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which then had to be repaired at a significant cost.
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To solve this problem, the decision was made to move dozens of elephants from Majete National Park to Nkotakota Wildlife Park,
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where there were no elephants.
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But, obviously, attempting to move significant numbers of elephants to a new home 300 kilometres away is quite a challenge.
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So, how did this translocation process work in practice?
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Elephants were moved in groups of between 8 and 20,
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all belonging to one family.
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Because relationships are very important to elephants,
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they all had to be moved at the same time.
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A team of vets and park rangers flew over the park in helicopters and targeted a group,
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which were rounded up and directed to a designated open plane.
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The vets then used darts to immobilise the elephants.
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This was a tricky manoeuvre as they not only had to select the right dose of tranquiliser for different sized elephants,
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but they had to dart the elephants as they were running around.
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This also had to be done as quickly as possible,
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so as to minimise the stress caused.
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As soon as the elephants began to flop onto the ground,
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the team moved in to take care of them.
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To avoid the risk of suffocation,
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the team had to make sure none of the elephants were lying on their chests
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because their lungs could be crushed in this position.
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So all the elephants had to be placed on their sides.
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One person stayed with each elephant while they waited for the vets to do checks.
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It was very important to keep an eye on their breathing.
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If there were fewer than six breaths per minute,
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the elephant would need urgent medical attention.
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Collars were fitted to the matriarch in each group so their movements could be tracked in their new home.
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Measurements were taken of each elephant's tusks.
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Elephants with large tusks would be at greater risk from poachers,
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and also of their feet.
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The elephants were then taken to a recovery area,
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before being loaded onto trucks and transported to their new home.
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The elephants translocated to Enkotakota settled in very well and the project has generally been accepted to have been a huge success,
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and not just for the elephants.
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Employment prospects have improved enormously,
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contributing to rising living standards for the whole community.
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Poaching is no longer an issue,
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as former poachers are able to find more reliable sources of income.
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In fact, many of them volunteered to give up their weapons,
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as they were no longer of any use to them.
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More than two dozen elephants have been born at Enkotakota since relocation,
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with an area of more than 1,800 square kilometres,
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there's plenty of space for the elephant population to continue to grow.
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Their presence is also helping to rebalance
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Nkotakota's damaged ecosystem and providing a sustainable conservation model which could be replicated in other parks.
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All this has been a big draw for tourism,
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which contributes five times more than the illegal wildlife trade to GDP.
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And this is mainly because of the elephants.
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There's also been a dramatic rise in interest from...
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本课概述
在本课中，您将了解关于大象迁移的重要信息，以及这种做法在马拉维的具体实施过程。通过观看视频，您不仅能提升您的英语听力技能，还能练习口语表达。通过配合听力练习，您可以更好地理解大象迁移背后的原因，以及动物保护的相关知识。本课程适合所有希望提高英语口语的学习者，尤其是在描述动物行为和环境保护方面的语言能力提升。
关键词汇与短语
- 迁移 (translocation) - 指将动物从一个栖息地移动到另一个栖息地。
- 过度繁殖 (overpopulation) - 当某个物种的数量超过其栖息环境的承载能力时的状况。
- 偷猎者 (poachers) - 以非法方式捕猎野生动物的人。
- 食物竞争 (competition for food) - 动物因食物不足而产生的争夺。
- 镇静剂 (tranquilizer) - 一种用于使动物放松或失去意识的药物。
- 保护区 (wildlife park) - 专门用于保护野生动物的区域。
- 监控 (tracking) - 通过技术手段追踪动物的活动。
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