Answer key 6
A decade ago, nearly a million and a half elephants were living in Africa.
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During the past ten years, the number of elephants has dwindled to about one half. These elephants are still being killed for their tusks, which
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are worth a lot of money, in spite of an increasing outcry against elephant
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hunting. Most elephants killed today die in the hand of illegal hunters.
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A grass-consuming animal, the elephant eats as much as 300 pounds a day
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when fully grown. Wandering far and wide in their search for food,
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elephants can move dozens of miles a day.
Failingto find the grasses they like best, they may turn to the trees and
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eat them.
Today, the remaining grasslands for the elephant are seriously reduced.
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Many places along their migration routes have been turned into farms. Some
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elephants are killed by farmers while feeding on the farms.
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What can the people do here in Taiwan about a threatened animal living so
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far away? First, we should know that there is a law protecting elephants,
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even here. People cannot buy or smuggle items made from ivory or any part
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of the elephant's body. Some handicapped persons living on making name
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chops have been protesting that the law impairs their livelihood, making
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it impossible for them to earn money. There are, of course, many substitute
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materials for elephant tusks, water buffalo horns being an important one.
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Most countries are now no longer importing ivory. It is hoped that the ban
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on buying or selling ivory will save the remaining African elephants.
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Wildlife conservation organizations like the WWF are not facing the problem
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lying down. Claiming that the ivory-producing countries are unable
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to protectthe elephants there, they are proposing some market-oriented
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approaches to solving the problem.
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译文：
10前，几近150万头大象还在非洲存活。而这10年来，大象数目已减少了一半。尽管对偷猎大象的谴责日渐高涨，但为了获得贵重的象牙，这些大象仍一直遭到猎杀如今遇害的大象大都死于非法盗猎者之手。
大象是草食动物，成年象一天可吃掉300磅的草。长途跋涉、到处寻找食物时，大象一天可移动数十英里的距离。若找不到最喜欢的草，大象会转而吃树。
今日仅存、可供大象活动的草原已严重减少。大象迁移路线上有多处已开辟成农场。有些大象在农场觅食时被农人打死。
在台湾的人，对遥远地方这种饱受威胁的动物能出什么力？首先，我们要了解大象受法律保护，在台湾亦然。象牙或大象身体任何部分的制品都禁止走私、买卖。有些以刻印维生的残障人士抗议这条法律侵害他们的生计，让他们不赚钱。当然象牙有许多替代材料，很主要的一种就是水牛角。大部分国家已不再进口象牙。希望买卖象牙的禁令能挽救现存的非洲象。野生动物保护组织，如世界自然基金会，面对这个问题也不是纯然束手无策。他们表示象牙生产国无法保护国内的大象，所以提出了一些市场导向的方法来解决这一问题。
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