China's herd of wandering elephants many be climate-change migrants

Related words:

1. a heard of elephants/ cattle
2. a flock of birds/sheep
3. National Nature Reserve
4. environmental degradation = environmental deterioration 環(huán)境惡化
5. trek = a long and difficult journey 長途旅行
6. increasing human disturbance 人類干擾的增加
7. decreasing availability of food and water 食物和水的日益減少
8. turn something over to something 把... 改用于 Eg. There is a new plan to turn the land over to wind farming.
9. plantation 種植園
10. conservationist = environmentalist 環(huán)保主義者
11. biodiversity 生物多樣性
12. human-wildlife coexistence
13. set up dedicated nature reserves 設(shè)立專門的自然保護(hù)區(qū)
14. Buying back land from farmers is also a possiblity.
15. harsh penalities = severe publishment

Vocabulary:

1. captivate = enchant 使著迷 be captivated by Eg, The children were captivated by her stories.
2. pilfer = steal v 小偷小摸
3. scoff = eat a lot of something quickly 狼吞虎咽
4. amble + adv/prep(比如 amble down） = walk at a slow and relaxed speed = stroll Eg. We ambled down to the beach.
5. spur(刺激） sb to dosth 刺激/激勵某人做某事，不用總是用motivate或encourage eg. spur economic growth 刺激經(jīng)濟(jì)增長 on the spur of the moment 一時(shí)興起
6. levrage sth 充分利用 n, 影響力，杠桿作用
7. Not least = especially 尤其，特別
8. A is the cornerstone of B A是B的最重要的部分
9. spell(招致）trouble/ disaster/ danger/ a dire future

Nice sentence:

1. (象群北上的原因）Environmental degradation?may have?spurred them to set out on this unprecedented trek. To be specific,?habitat loss and increasing human disturbance?are more likely to lead to?the decreasing availability of food and water. Elephants can eat mountains of corn and pineapples every day, and much of their?traditional habit?near Xishuangbanna?has been turned into rubber plantations.
2. （人象矛盾） In addition, China's wild elephants have doubled to more than 300 since the 1990s, while their habitat has been shrinking by nearly two-thirds. Once they got a good taste for the high-quality food readily available in crop fields, they continued to seek it out, ambling through farmlands and villages. This process would cause enormous farmers damage and trigger the rise of potential human-elephant conflict. The intensity of the conflict can start as just a nuisance and quickly grow to the point where people or elephants get killed, although killing elephants is punishable by extremely harsh penalties. Unfortunately, this is already happening in some Asian countries and spells a dire future for elephants if we do not reverse the trend.
3. (保護(hù)生態(tài)重要性）We cannot ignore the effect of rapid development of the local economy on the loss of wildlife habitat. Clear waters and green mountains are as valuable as mountains of gold and silver(綠水青山等于金山銀山）. A healthy and complete ecosystem is the cornerstone of sustainable economic development.
4. (人象沖突）