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Protecting just 42 sites across Asia, ranging from temperate forests to trop
Protecting just 42 sites across Asia, ranging from temperate forests to trop
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2023-08-28
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Protecting just 42 sites across Asia, ranging from temperate forests to tropical grasslands, could be key to the survival of one of the world’s most symbolic and feared, wild cats—the tiger.
That radical proposal, published online in the journal Public Library of Science-. Biology, represents a scaling-back of ambition and what one of the paper’s authors calls "ruthless priority setting". "It’s forcing hard decisions," said Simon Stuart, co-author of the paper, who chairs the species survival commission at the International Union for Conservation of Nature. For animals that are worth considerable sums, he added, "there’s no way you can protect them across an entire landscape, because the costs are too high".
John Robinson, executive vice president for conservation and science at the Wildlife Conservation Society, said researchers experienced "a real shock" when they determined what was needed to keep the species going. The majority of about 1 000 breeding females are found in India, Russia and Indonesia. None remain in Cambodia, China, DPRK and Vietnam. "Unless we protect those core populations, within a few short years we could lose tigers altogether," said Robinson, another of the paper’s co-authors.
Over the past couple of decades, environmentalists have focused on preserving large, ecologically rich landscapes to ensure that a wide range of plant and animal species can thrive over the long term. But for a number of highly endangered species, scientists now say, governments and nonprofit organizations must target their efforts more narrowly if they want to ensure that these populations remain viable.
In the case of the tiger, three factors—habitat loss, the overhunting of its prey and poaching (偷猎)— have caused its number to drop from more than 10 000 in the 1980s to fewer than 3 500 today. It is said that tiger parts are so prized in Eastern medicine that a dead one can sell for $ 1 500 to $ 3 500 before its eyes are sold as a cure for some complicated diseases and are converted into a soup for the body, and its bones are ground into powder to treat some diseases like typhoid (伤寒). Researchers have determined that tigers occupy less than 7 percent of their historic range. In addition to poaching, Asia’s rapid economic development—including road and dam construction—has eroded tiger habitat.
Robinson and others advocate a two-step process that focuses on monitoring and protecting tigers in the 42 source sites and a longer-term effort to preserve the large landscapes tigers need to hunt and wander. [br] Apart from protecting 42 source sites, researchers advocate a longer-term effort to preserve the large landscapes tigers need to______.
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hunt and wander
解析
细节辨认题。本题考查研究者为保护老虎提出的解决办法。文章最后指出,Robinson等人倡导一项两步走的计划,重点放在监测和保护42处老虎生存地区,并做出长期的努力来保护老虎觅食和漫步所需的大片区域。根据原文可得出答案。
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