第43章 Pandas May Face Extinction(1 / 2)

Wild panda numbers dropped to as low as 1,000ie 1970s,but a painstaking rvatiramme has incread o around 1,600today scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern a.

However,acc to WWF estimates,43pert of panda habitats and 29pert of its populatio yet effectively protected by nature rerves and protected areas.

The rvatiramme was suffered a t-back last year when the Wolong Rerve was devastated in the Si earthquake.Rest the rerve is now Mr.Fan’s top priority.

fragmentation n.分裂,破碎

approximately adv.大約,大概

notoriously adv.著名地,眾所周知地

disct v.分割;解剖;仔細分析或研究

painstaking adj.需細心的;辛勤的,辛苦的;需專注的

top priority應予最優先考慮的事

優勝劣汰是大自然的生存法則,任何人、任何力量都無法改變這種宇宙間的規律。大熊貓是世界上最招人喜愛的動物之一,它憨態可掬,調皮溫順,像人一樣喜歡懶洋洋地坐在地上。把它選作標誌的世界自然基金會在對它的介紹中這樣寫道:“這是一種平和的、吃竹子的動物。”長期以來,人們對於大熊貓在其自然棲息地裏的繁殖行為所知無幾,有關它們的生殖生理過程也知之甚少,一直籠統地認為當代大熊貓的繁殖狀況不景氣。可是,最新研究證實,大熊貓具有正常的生殖能力,種群未表現出減少的跡象,而種群處於增長或穩定的可能性要大於種群處於減少的可能性。從大熊貓的生殖遺傳潛力來說,它是一個有希望繼續繁衍下去的種群。

Wild panda numbers dropped to as low as 1,000ie 1970s,but a painstaking rvatiramme has incread o around 1,600today scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern a.

However,acc to WWF estimates,43pert of panda habitats and 29pert of its populatio yet effectively protected by nature rerves and protected areas.