[00:05.07]Unit 22 Environmental Protection Culture Corner [00:10.88]The World Wildlife Fund [00:13.93]The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) [00:16.91]was found by Sir Peter Scott in 1961. [00:20.98]His goal was to help protect the Earth's [00:23.39]natural e...
[00:02.31]Forests [00:03.63]The world's forests are the natural habitats [00:05.99]for millions of species of plants, [00:08.33]insects, birds, reptiles and mammals. [00:11.68]They also help produce clean oxygen. [00:14.47]Because of illegal logging,...
[00:01.94]Fresh water [00:03.71]Rivers, lakes and wet-lands are sources [00:06.23]of fresh water,not only for humans, [00:08.50]but for wildlife too. [00:10.35]Due to pollution and climate change, [00:12.60]about 50% of the world's fresh water habita...
[00:02.03]Unit 22 Environmental Protection [00:07.01]Language Awareness 7 [00:09.31]Wrapped Up [00:10.99]People, bridges, buildings, rivers,valleys, [00:14.47]even entire coastlines and islands, [00:16.94]have all been wrapped up [00:18.29]by the Bul...
[00:01.28]Two or three new projects are currently [00:03.58]being developed by Christo and his team. [00:06.12]One of them is in Colorado in the USA [00:08.66]where the Arkansas River will be covered [00:11.07]by 10 kilometres of luminous, [00:13.59]...
[00:04.53]Unit 22 Environmental Protection [00:08.85]Lesson 1 Global Warming [00:12.39]Can we take the heat?In the last few decades, [00:16.95]environmentalists have reported [00:19.02]that human beings are causing changes [00:22.29]in the Earth's cl...
[00:00.80]When the atmospheric concertrations [00:03.16]of these gases increase, however, [00:05.84]more heat is trapped and the Earth's [00:07.92]temperature rises. [00:10.37]Over the last 100 years, [00:13.01]the global average temperature [00:15.1...
[00:01.33]Serious diseases like malaria will spread [00:04.61]and natural resource industries [00:06.92]such as fishing and forestry [00:08.84]will be negatively affected. [00:10.86]Increased temperatures [00:12.29]will also cause the polar ice-caps...
[00:02.70]Unit 22 Environmental Protection Lesson 2 [00:08.46]Exercise 3 Listen to the lecture. [00:11.41]Use the Strategies to write some notes. [00:14.76]Today's lecture will focus on the serious issue [00:17.75]of endangered species. [00:19.90]By...
[00:00.86]Another endangered species, [00:02.83]the Yangtze Dolphin,is China's only fresh-water [00:06.53]dolphin and is sometimes called' the panda [00:09.35]of the Yangtze River'because it is so rare. [00:13.11]its numbers are decreasing for severa...
[00:01.45]Exercise 6 Listen to the lecture again [00:05.04]and complete the fatfiles. [00:08.94]Pronunciation [00:09.55]Exercise 8 Listen to the lectrue again [00:13.06]and take note of the pronunciation [00:15.08]of the compound words. [00:17.82]Exe...
[00:01.61]Why? [00:02.55]Because the alligators live in holes [00:04.46]that damage the farmland. [00:06.04]That's the reason why they are killed. [00:07.72]What can be done? [00:09.30]Well, our government is developing [00:10.96]a conservation plan...
[00:02.02]Unit 22 Environmental Protection [00:06.60]Lesson 3 Unnatural Disasters [00:10.92]Hell and High Water [00:13.46]The last few years have been the worst period [00:16.21]on record for environmental disasters [00:19.22]and experts are predicti...
[00:02.27]B Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes [00:05.51]have always been a threat in certain parts [00:07.84]of the world. [00:09.00]A volcanic eruption virtually wiped out the [00:11.15]small Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1997, [00:15.66]and th...
[00:00.98]C So why is nature beginning to turn on us? [00:05.71]One answer is over-population. [00:07.86]The population of the world [00:09.12]is growing at the rate of 10,000 people [00:11.54]an hour,240,000 every day, [00:15.91]nearly 90 million a...
