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卫报社论：关注封锁政策下的野生动物 At London zoo, the giraffes, which are 1. __________(easy) visible from the street, had regular visitors even during lockdown. Like most other attractions that rely on tourists for income, zoos were forced to shut owing to the coronavirus face a financially fraught future. But the risks to captive animals and their keepers are nothing to those faced by wild creatures and the people who guard them. Already under huge 2. __________(press) from multiple sources, international conservation efforts have been thrown into fresh chaos. South Africa reported a 53% drop in the number of rhinos killed by poachers, 3. _________(compare) with the first six months of last year (from 316 in 2019, to 166). The sudden dramatic fall in air pollution and traffic (road, sea and air) brought rapid but short-lived benefits for many of the planet’s non-human inhabitants. But there have also been disasters. Last week in Uganda, a landmark ruling saw a poacher, Felix Byamukama, 4. ___________(sentence) to six years in jail after he admitted killing a silverback mountain gorilla called Rafiki. In May and June, there 5. _________(be) a mysterious die-off of around 350 elephants in Botswana, and the killing of six elephants in one day in Ethiopia by poachers who6. ___________(steal) their tusks. Demand in countries including China and Vietnam for animal parts such as rhino horn, 7. ________is used in traditional medicines, along with ivory (which is illegal in China) and pangolin meat, has long been one of the drives of wildlife trafficking ?非法交易. 8. __________there are alternative sources of income for the people who live near them, the likelihood(可能性) is that these animals and others will continue to be hunted for meat or cash, or crowded out of shrinking habitats by farmers, miners and loggers. While the environmental benefits of a permanent reduction in long-distance air travel are indisputable(?不容置疑的), it also 9. _____________(threat) the viability of wildlife tourism