VOA标准英语2014--AWF Launches Anti-poaching Fund
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2014年(十二月)
AWF Launches Anti-poaching Fund
The African Wildlife Foundation has announced a $10 million fund to quickly target poachers. The Urgent Response Fund aims to reduce the killings 2 of thousands of endangered elephants and rhinos 4 every year.
The AWF said in the 1970s, Africa was home to more than 1.3 million elephants. That figure has plummeted 5 to about 419,000 today. Elephants are now being killed at the rate of 35,000 a year. Rhino 3 numbers are also dwindling 6. South African officials said more than 2,000 have been killed in the last two years alone. Giraffes and lions are fairing very poorly, as well.
Craig Sholley, the organization’s vice 7 president for philanthropy and marketing 8, said, “It’s just really, really important for people to recognize that this is a serious problem. There’s a possibility that we could lose elephants within the next 20 years. The same is true of rhinos and certain populations of lions and cheetah 9 and gorillas 10 and chimpanzees.”
He said that the Urgent Response Fund will be used in targeted ways.
“We’ve got three different categories and they’re relatively 11 simple. The categories are Stop the Killing 1, Stop the Trafficking and Stop the Demand. Stop the Killing is all about addressing the poaching on the ground in targeted areas in Africa. Category two is all about stopping the trafficking. Finally, as far as Stop the Demand is concerned the big markets are in Asia – China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam. We’re working with a partner WildAid to create public awareness 13 and behavioral change.”
The AWF and WildAid are creating celebrity 14 public service announcements or PSAs. Sholley said such radio and TV spots helped to sharply reduce the demand for shark fin 12 soup.
“We hope to do the same as far as ivory and rhino horn is concerned,” he said.
The strategy calls for the training and use of sniffer dogs at key wildlife product smuggling 15 points – airports and seaports 16 in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the DRC. The organization has underwritten the purchase of a helicopter to patrol a private reserve near South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
The $10 million from the AWF will support the Urgent Response Fund for three years. And Sholley said there’s no red tape or bureaucratic 17 hang-ups.
“That’s what’s really exciting about this. Governments like the United States, Great Britain and China [have] stepped-up with funds that are similar -- $10 million. We’re talking about the largest economies in the world. And AWF has effectively stepped-up with the same amount. They do have to go through a certain bureaucracy in terms of ensuring that the funds are going to be funneled 18 to appropriate parties on the ground,” he said.
The African Wildlife Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1961 with headquarters in Kenya.
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
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- The rhino charged headlong towards us.犀牛急速地向我们冲来。
- They have driven the rhino to the edge of extinction.他们已经令犀牛濒临灭绝。
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- the similitude between humans and gorillas 人类和大猩猩的相像
- Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch. 每个大星星家族都由一个魁梧的、长着银色被毛的族长带领着。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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