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托福阅读：空运犀牛 在南非，有一些犀牛正处在危险的环境中，偷猎者猖獗，使得它们的数量越来越少，环境保护 主义者们为此做了哪些？竟然是空运犀牛。到底是怎样的实现的呢？今天的托福阅读材料就为您解 开谜题！ 疑难词： Craten. 板条箱；篓 兽群 放牧 成群 herdn. v. v. Slaughtern.v.屠宰，屠杀 Behackedoff被砍 意义；意图 意图；打算 Purportn. vt. smokeandmirrors烟雾和镜子；欺骗性行为 Parasitn. 寄生虫 Restockvi. 补充货源；补足 使缩小，使减少 减少 Dwindlevt. vi. thwartvt. 挫败；反对；阻碍 rampantadj. 猖獗的 使入伍；征募 支持；从军 Enlistvt. vi. collusionn. 勾结；共谋 Largest Rhino Airlift Ever to Move 100 At-Risk Animals 有史以来规模最大的犀牛空运：运送 100头处于危险的犀牛 Weighing up to two and a half tons each, rhinos arent easy to herd, let alone pack into crates and ship across national borders in airplanes. 犀牛平均重达2.5吨，很难去管理，更不用说把它们装进货箱，空运到境外了。 But thatswhat conservationistsare doingwith aboutahundredrhinos inSouthAfrica, in an admittedly desperate bid to save the endangered animals from poachers and establish new populations in the wild. 但是在南非保护主义者真的这么做了，他们这样运送了 100多头犀牛来竭力拯救它们。因为偷 猎者和野外入侵者它们处于危险之中。 Rhino conservation isa desperate situation, sowe aremoving rhinos from thehighest poaching areas to the lowest poaching areas, says Dereck Joubert, a wildlife filmmaker and conservationist based in Botswanas Okavango Delta. 在博茨瓦纳奥卡万戈三角洲工作的野生动物纪录片制作人，自然保护主义者DereckJoubert表 示： “犀牛的栖息地是对它们生存不利的，所以我们要把它们从偷猎高发地运到更安全的地方” Rhino conservation is a desperate situation. 犀牛生存状况堪忧 Thereareanestimated4,000to5,000blackrhinosand20,000whiterhinos leftinAfrica, with another one killed by poachers every seven and a half hours, says Joubert, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. Thats more than a thousand rhinos slaughtered a year, mostly so their horns can be hacked off and sold inChina and Vietnam on the black market. 国