英语听力：自然百科 野生动物回归莫桑比克
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It's early morning in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The morning stillness is broken by the quiet puma1 helicopters. Their target is a herd2 of elephants. Within minutes, an expert team is on the ground. These elephants haven't been harmed, just tranquilized. If all goes well, they will wake up safely in a new world, animal pioneers in a grand human experiment. Their destination is a stand 40 miles away just across the border in Mozambique. The chaos3 of Mozambique's wars and its poverty made the country a living hell for its wildlife as well as its citizens. During and after the war, poaching was out of control.
There's maybe a hundred elephants at the moment in the bulk program, maybe a couple of hundred of
buffalo4 compared to these many thousands in the Kruger Park.
Repopulation will take years, so today, scientist is giving nature a push. It’s part of a
radical5 new program to
rehabilitate6 Mozambique and its wildlife.
The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, otherwise known as a Peace Park. The idea is to use this
joint7 project to forge cross-border ties and share the wealth of tourism from the park. Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique will each contribute portions of the park. If the plan works out, everybody wins.
And while there is a wealth of unspoiled nature here, there is also danger, above and below ground. This landscape is littered with land mines. Around a million are still buried in Mozambique. Near the borders of the new Transnational Park, Mozambique is doing the tough work of digging up its past.
This was the area of
confrontation8 between government and guerrilla. So, this was a typical protective mine belt like we found in a lot places in Mozambique, around bridges and any kinds of
infrastructure9.
The Transfrontier Park has only recently been cleared of mines, but the
wilderness10 still carries the scars of war. Mozambique's past was
bloody11, but the future looks bright. The elephants may not know it, but their pioneers in a Great African Experiment, walking toward their new home, they are part of a great change that is
sweeping12 this entire region.
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