Сделайте ! Elephants use tusks for stripping trees, moving objects, fighting and display. Humans have other uses for tusks – or ivory – such as jewellery, piano keys and billiard balls.
Although ivory has been valued for centuries, large-scale killing of elephants for ivory did not begin until about 1900. By the 1970s and 1980s, poaching became a serious problem.
Between 1979 and 1992, the numbers of elephants plunged from 1.3 million to about 600,000. Elephants were in danger. Those protecting the elephants chose a simple solution: ban the sale of ivory, and the poachers will find it difficult to make a living.
The ban on ivory sales worked. Elephant populations grew fast in Southern Africa. But they also began to damage crops and chase villagers.
This created a problem for those protecting wildlife. Angry villagers were demanding that elephants should be taken away from areas near humans – even killed. One solution was to let local people have control of the way the elephants were managed. But how could you make villagers want to look after the elephants?
So the authorities began to allow the sale of ivory as a way for the villagers to raise money. This gave them an interest in managing the elephants.
It seemed to make sense. If elephants were no longer endangered in southern Africa, shouldn't African countries be allowed to sell ivory to fund this sort of conservation program?
In 1998 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) lifted the ban on all trade in ivory. Money from the sale of African ivory is being used to help people live alongside the elephant.
John Newby of the World Wide Fund for Nature says that preservation alone is not enough. "It isn't creating the incentives needed by ordinary Africans to see elephants as a valuable resource and not just a pest," says Newby.
So far it has been the tourist industry – airlines and hotels – that has made money from African wildlife. Now that local people can sell ivory again, the elephants are at last bringing wealth to their human neighbours. By Simon Baines
In the text above find the underlined words, which are close in meaning to those below:
1. Prized 2. caring for 3. preservation 4. close to5. fell sharply 6. insisting 7. put at risk 8. stimuli 9. harm 10. illegal hunting
Объяснение:
вот
Одежда Action Point
Вы купили новую куртку, потому что вы
ваш старый в течение многих лет. Ты бросаешь
унесите свою старую куртку или отнесите в благотворительный магазин?
Одежда Action Point в южном Лондоне имеет
ответ. Oни
старая одежда для
лет. Oни
более 200 новинок
одежду, превратив старую одежду в современную
ед. Более того, они
половина их
прибыли для обучения молодежи дизайну одежды.
Итак, как это работает? 'Мы начали с моды
конкурс дизайна для молодежи, а затем использовали
выигравшие дизайны на одежде, которую мы получили
сделать их снова модными, - говорит генеральный директор компании.
Лаура Бауэр. 'С тех пор там
нет
нехватка новых дизайнов. Люди в нашей школе
нас новые дизайны каждую неделю
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