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By Kari Barber
Mt. Nimba, Guinea
29 February 2008
 

Where the West African nation of Guinea meets Liberia and Ivory Coast stands Mt. Nimba, the highest point in the region. The mountain range is home to rare plant and animal species. Because it is on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of areas in danger, it is illegal for the thousands of villagers who live in the area to farm the land. Kari Barber reports from the Guinea border village Serengbara about this clash between protecting the environment and the population's need to survive.


Environmentalists and local guides enter a protected area, home to a family of 13 chimpanzees. Deforestation has separated the chimps 1 from a larger group. They are not reproducing. Environmentalists are trying to change that. Guides from the area say the chimpanzees are important to local villagers, too.


Camera Guide, Henri-Didier says they help to care for the chimpanzees, "Before we loved the chimpanzees. If you made manioc or corn, you would leave some by the road for chimpanzees to have their part."


But now relations have become strained.


Villagers try to gain illegal farm land by burning protected areas.


In the village of Serengbara, families once cultivated fields and raised livestock 2.


Now village leader Bakada Siomy says that is not allowed. And feeding his children is becoming difficult, "We have problems here because we are between the savanna 3 and Mt. Nimba. It is illegal for us to go there to cultivate now."


To replace the farmland, environmentalists have built these fishing ponds for the village.


But many villagers say they are not used to fish, and do not like to eat them.


Environmental teams are now trying to plant trees and other plants specific to the diets of chimpanzees along a corridor. Local Guide, Pascal Gomi adds, "The tree's fruit, the chimpanzees can eat and the trees grow fast."


They hope this will lead the chimpanzee family to other nearby chimps so that they might reproduce. But there have been acts of vandalism against these efforts, too.


Villagers who have been living in the area for decades say environmentalists coming in from the outside do not always understand their way of life and their needs.




(非洲)黑猩猩( chimp的名词复数 )
  • Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少,也太接近于人类,不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
  • And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类,就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
n.家畜,牲畜
  • Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
  • The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。
n.大草原
  • The savanna is also the home of meat-eaters--the lion,leopard,and hyena who feed on the grasseaters.大草原也是食肉动物的家乡--狮子、豹、鬣狗--它们都是以草食动物维持生命的。
  • They sped upon velvet wheels across an exhilarant savanna.他们的马车轻捷地穿过一片令人赏心悦目的大草原。
学英语单词
'news
-tious
a Fairy
accordingly as
acetoacetyl aniline
addendus
allosteric inhibitor
alphabetical typewriter
arteria pulmonaliss
Asparagus officinalis L.
berties
bromoacetyl-N-methylalanine
calling upon a prisoner
cerivastatin
china bark
Clematis pinchuanensis
colted
composing rule
counteract the toxicity of another drug
cundie
dual register burner
electric blanket
electronic signalling device
f-spot, F spot
fastness to bleaching
genus varanuss
hardware-in-the-loop (hwil)simulation
heat resisting aluminum paint
heliotrinic acid
hunter's sauce
Hyalostachybotrys
hypertensive arteriospasm of retina
imperators
instrument microcomputer
interdiction of commerce
intermediate size homogeneous reactor
intervention button
lady bear
lampadaire
local port level
longitudinal time code
lowintensity
lysosomotropic drug
machine for testing test
market-oriented mode
Marlboro Friday
Mettūr
micro-ammeter
midfieldman
moellons
nanoprofile
noct-ambler
OASDI
observatorial
onley
open ... mouth wide
organizational system
pegmatypic (kalmus & maynard smith 1966)
Peking Adjustment Rules
phalium bisulcatum japonica
pine cone fish
plain set
pralltriler
predorsum
presspacked
process furnace
psalmodial
pulled a fast one
radiation protection officer
ratio of viscosity
Ravanusa
reproducible quantity
Resitan
rostrum
silted up
slop pails
solid bridging
stock ROM
symmetric (al) vibration
text processing system
thermal-neutron reactor
thirty-four
timer compensating circuit
tipping idler
tolleson
Tongha-ri
Uchita
Ueckermünde
ultradiscretizing
unlawful practice
unnecessary function
Urobotrya latisquama
user interrupt
variable-hue optical sound recording
vault door
water flooding additives
WBSA
wide-angle nozzle
windmillers
worm gear drive
wratten filter
X-wax