高三英语Six Grassroots Activists Win $ 125,000 Goldman Environmental Prize英语听力.docVIP

高中英语Six Grassroots Activists Win $ 125,000 Goldman Environmental Prize 听力理解： Grassroots environmental activists from six regions of the world are this year’s winners of the 18th Goldman Environmental Prize. The privately-funded award recognizes people for their courage and initiative in responding to environmental problems. Hammer Simwinga is from Zambia’s North Luangwa Valley, where poaching in the 1980s decimated the wildlife in North Luangwa National Park and left villagers in extreme poverty. The Goldman Foundation recognized Simwinga for developing an alternative to elephant poaching that’s given people jobs and allowed wildlife to rebound. “When the project started, the park was almost gone. The aim was to rehabilitate the whole thing so that animals could go back. [It] was my role to help my local people to come up with something which would really support them.” Simwinga founded and still heads the North Luangwa Wildlife Conservation and Community Development Programme. It promotes small business loans and supports sustainable agricultural practices among the region’s farmers. Former poacher Godfry Chikalipa says these efforts helped him end his career as a poacher. “His project has made a huge difference in my life by providing me with training. I’ve been able to have steady work from these skills for many years. I now feel more hopeful about my future and also about North Luangwa, its people and its wildlife.” The project now reaches 35,000 people in 65 villages. “The animals have almost recovered. The whole community has done that. So this is the most important thing in this area, because their livelihood now entirely depends on agricultural production.” The Goldman Prize for Asia was awarded to Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, a former herdsman from the sparsely populated steppes of Mongolia. His mission has been to shut down destructive mining operations along the country’s scarce waterways. Searching for new capital investment in the era o