托福阅读机经背景：美国帮助拯救西非濒危大猩猩.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景：美国帮助拯救西非濒危大猩猩 The U.S. is helping to save an elusive and endangered species of gorilla in West Africa. The Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wildlife Conservation Society have developed a five-year plan to ensure the survival of the primate. 美国正在帮助拯救西非一种罕见并且濒临灭绝的大猩猩。渔业与野生生物局和野生生物保护学会开发了一项5年计划，以确保这种灵长目动物的生存。 Dirck Byler of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service said the Cross River gorilla is not as well-known as its relatives in other parts of Africa. 美国渔业与野生生物局的德克.拜勒尔说，克罗斯河大猩猩不像非洲其他地区的大猩猩那么有名。 Critically endangered “There’s two different species of gorilla actually. There’s the western gorilla and the eastern gorilla. And the one that people are most familiar with are the eastern gorillas, specifically the subspecies known as the mountain gorilla, which is found in Rwanda and Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The western gorilla is found in the western part of the Congo Basin in countries such as Cameroon, Gabon, northern Republic of the Congo. And then one of their subspecies is called the Cross River gorilla. And this is the most endangered gorilla species today,” he said. 拜勒尔说：“事实上，有两种不同的大猩猩。一种是西部大猩猩，另一种是东部大猩猩。人们最熟悉的是东部大猩猩，特别是被称为山地大猩猩的这一亚种。山地大猩猩多见于卢旺达、乌干达和刚果民主共和国。西部大猩猩在刚果盆地的西部，那里有咯麦隆、加蓬以及北部的刚果共和国。西部大猩猩的一个亚种叫作克罗斯河大猩猩。它是当今最濒危的大猩猩。” In fact, the Cross River gorilla has been classified as “critically endangered” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the IUCN. 事实上，克罗斯河大猩猩被国际自然保护联盟列为“极度濒危”的物种。 “It’s much more endangered than the mountain gorilla is and unfortunately hasn’t received as much attention over the years,” said Byler. 拜勒尔说：“克罗斯河大猩猩比山地大猩猩更为濒临灭绝，不幸的是，多年来这一点并未引起足够的重视。” Byler, program officer for the Great Ape Conservation Fund at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said it’s believed there are only a few hundred of the gorillas left. 拜勒尔是美国渔业与野生生物局类人猿保护基金的项目负责人。他说，据信，克罗斯河大猩猩目前只剩下几百只了。 “We don’t really have a good estimate of what the population was before, but it was likely many thousands. But