雅思阅读材料 拯救自然保护区.pdfVIP

智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 雅思阅读材料 拯救自然保护区 英国已经进行了很长时间的秘密谈判，想要保护英国的最重要的野 生生物自然保护区。因为这些保护区已经陷入了崩溃的边缘。这究竟是 怎么回事呢，我们来看一下下面的雅思阅读材料。   自然保护区 Secret Government negotiations to dispose of Englands most precious wildlife sites in a big money-saving exercise are in tatters. Wildlife charities which the Government had assumed would take over the running of 140 national nature reserves are refusing to do so without new funding, which would run into many millions of pounds. Their insistence on a big cash injection as a condition of any transfer may mean the whole idea will be scrapped. The reserves, which range from the Lizard in Cornwall to Lindisfarne in Northumberland, and in size from three-quarters of an acre at Horn Park Quarry in Dorset to 22,000 acres of the Wash, represent many of the finest wildlife sites in the country. There are 224 of them, 140 run by the Governments wildlife agency, Natural England. Harbouring such distinctive habitats as ancient woodland, chalk grassland and lowland heath, and sheltering rare species such as nightingales, orchids and red squirrels, the reserves are regarded as the jewels in the crown of British nature conservation. Since the election, however, Conservative ministers from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have been trying to get rid of the sites run by Natural England. Ministers have been engaged in confidential talks to try to get several wildlife charities to take over the running of the reserves. Initially, ministers wanted to sell the nature reserves outright, but quickly found there were no takers. So for several months they have been talking about handing them over to the National Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Wildlife Trusts Partnership, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, the Woodland Trust, Butterfly Conservation and Plantlife. These charities do not object in principle to taking