高三英语Six Grassroots Activists Win $ 125,000 Goldman Environmental Prize英语听力

高中英语高中英语 SixSix GrassrootsGrassroots ActivistsActivists WinWin $ $ 125,000125,000 GoldmanGoldman EnvironmentalEnvironmental PrizePrize 听力理解： Grassroots environmental activists from six regions of the world are this years winners of the 18th Goldman Environmental Prize. The privately-funded award recognizes people for their courage and initiative in responding to environmental problems. Hammer Simwinga is from Zambias North Luangwa Valley, where poaching in the 1980s decimated the wildlife in North Luangwa National Park and left villagers in extreme poverty. The Goldman Foundation recognized Simwinga for developing an alternative to elephant poaching thats given people jobs and allowed wildlife to rebound. “When the project started, the park was almost gone. The aim was to rehabilitate the whole thing so that animals could go back. It was my role to help my local people to come up with something which would really support them.” Simwinga founded and still heads the North Luangwa Wildlife Conservation and Community Development Programme. It promotes small business loans and supports sustainable agricultural practices among the regions farmers. Former poacher Godfry Chikalipa says these efforts helped him end his career as a poacher. “His project has made a huge difference in my life by providing me with training. Ive been able to have steady work from these skills for many years. I now feel more hopeful about my future and also about North Luangwa, its people and its wildlife.” The project now reaches 35,000 people in 65 villages. “The animals have almost recovered. The whole community has done that. So this is the most important thing in this area, because their livelihood now entirely depends on agricultural production.” The Goldman Prize for Asia was awarded to Tsetsegee Munkhbayar, a former herdsman from the sparsely populated steppes of Mongolia. His mission has been to shut down destructive mining operations along the countrys scarce waterways. Searching for new capital investment in the era of free trade after the fall of the Soviet Union, the government of Mongolia, awarded 37 foreign and domestic companies rights to mine gold along the Onggi River. Thats a vital waterway that supplies drinking water to 100,000 people and one million head of livestock. “Aggressive mining is destroying Mongolian culture and negatively influencing our traditional beliefs about environmental protection. Our water became contaminated and I realized that my river was dying.” This prompted Munkhbayar to act. In 2001 he founded the Onggi River Movement and then went on to join forces with ten other river groups to create the Mongolian Nature Protection Coalition. “This movement has taught people not to rely solely on the government, demonstrating that ordinary people can change things if they take the initiative.” Through his civic efforts Munkhbayar convinced the Mongolian government to tighten and more strictly enforce mining regulations and to begin environmental restoration, 35 of the 37 mining operations in the Onggi River Basin have ceased operation. Munkhbayar says clean water and air are life itself for Mongolians. “We say, blue sky - father, divine earth- mother. We still think and respect this in our hearts because were children of mother earth.” The Goldman Prize laureate for Island Nations is Orri Vigfusson, an entrepreneur and life-long outdoorsman from Reykjavik, Iceland. Disturbed by declining salmon stock in the North Atlantic, Vigfusson developed an innovative plan. He would pay commercial fisherman not to fish. “I feel that my mission in life is to get back the salmon stocks into historic abundance where it was sort of 200 years ago.” In 1989, Vigfusson founded the North Atlantic Salmon Fund to raise money to buy out commercial salmon fishing rights. He says from the beginning, he realized that a cash handout was not enough. “So we decided to use our expertise to develop other sustainable fisheries, like in Greenland, they are now the biggest producer and exporter of lumpfish caviar to the world.” The North Atlantic Salmon Fund has raised $35 million for its programs. NAS has negotiated buyouts or moratoriums against fishing with governments and commercial fishing operations in England, Greenland, France and Norway. According to NASs latest estimates, commercial open-sea fishing in the Atlantic has dropped by more than 75 percent in the last 15 years. Other Goldman Prizes this year honored grassroots efforts to stop oil pipeline construction in a small community in Ireland, activism to protect boreal forests in Canada, and initiatives supporting indigenous peoples and rainforest habitats in the Peruvian Amazon. Vocabulary| 单词注释 Dictation Tips |听力难点 1. rely on 在此的意思是“依赖” 。Elderly parents often rely their adult children. 还有完全信任的意思。She is someone you can really rely on when times get rough. 2. cease operation 在此是停止作业的意思，关于 cease，在英语新闻中常用的 还有 cease fire，表示停火。 3. buy out 出钱使其放弃，买断。She bought out an pharmacist and is doing very well. 关于 buy 的常用短语还有： buy into 参股。They tried to buy into the club but were not accepted. buy off 收买。The corrupt official bought off those who might expose him. buy up 买光 He bougth up the last of the strawberries at the fruit market. Translation| 全文翻译 6 位草根活动家赢得 125000 美元戈德曼环境奖金 来自世界 6 个地区的草根环境活动家获得了今年的第 18 届戈德曼环境奖。这 个私人资助的奖项褒奖在环境问题上做出勇敢和积极反应的人。 哈默希姆文加来自赞比亚北卢安瓜河谷，上个世界 80 年代，那里盗猎成风， 北卢安瓜国家公园的野生动物大批遭到屠杀，村民陷入赤贫窘境。 戈德曼基金赞扬希姆文加找到的新的方法，通过让人们有工作，野生动物数量也得 到恢复，以抑制大象盗猎活动。 “当项目开始时，公园已经濒临死亡。项目的目标 是恢复整个环境以便动物能够回到这里，我的作用是帮助父老乡亲想出能够实实在 在支持他们的办法。 ” 希姆文加创建了北卢安瓜野生生物保护和社区发展计划，现在他仍然是这个计划的 负责人。此计划在这个地区的农民中推广小型商业贷款，支持可持续耕作方法。一 度是偷猎者的高佛瑞慈卡里帕说这些努力帮助他结束了盗猎生涯。 “他的项目通 过培训给我带来巨大改变，我已经能够凭借学到的技术稳稳当当工作很多年了。我 觉得无论是自己，还是北卢安瓜，还是这里的人民和野生动物都更有希望了。 ” 希姆文加说项目现在已经推广到 65 个村庄的 35000 人口。 “动物差不多恢复了，社 区成功做到了这点。这是这个地区最重要的一点，因为，他们的生计如今全部依赖 农业生产。 ” 戈德曼亚洲的奖项颁发给了次次吉穆克巴亚，曾经是牧民的穆克巴亚来自人口稀 疏的蒙古大草原。他的使命是制止该国珍贵水道沿岸的破坏性采矿作业。 苏联解体后，为了在自由贸易时代寻求新的资本投资，蒙古政府准许 37 家国内外 企业在昂集河沿岸开采金矿。昂集河是给 10 万人口和 100 万头牲畜提供饮用水的 重要水道。 “破坏性开采损坏了蒙古的土地和文化，对我们关于环保的传统观念有着负面的影 响。我发现我们的水源受到了污染，我意识到，我们的河流奄奄一息。 ” 这使穆克巴亚下决心行动。在 2001 年，他发起了保护昂集河运动，接着他与十个 其它河流组织一道建立了蒙古自然保护联盟。 ”保护昂集河运动教育我不要单纯依 赖政府，如果老百姓采取主动显示自己的力量，也能改变一些事情。 ” 经过他发起的国民运动，穆克巴亚说服蒙古政府制定了更加严格的开采条例，并严 厉执行，环境也开始恢复。由于他的努力，昂集河流域的 37 座矿山已经有 35 座停 止运营。穆克巴亚说清洁的水源和空气本身就是蒙古的生命。 “我们说蓝天父 亲，神圣的大地母亲。我们仍发自内心地相信和尊敬这点，因为我们都是大地 母亲的孩子。 ” 戈德曼奖桂冠还颁发给了来自岛国冰岛首都雷克雅维克的奥里维格富松。他是一 位企业家，一个长期参加户外活动的人。北大西洋鲑鱼存量下降让他深感困扰，维 格富松开发出一种创新计划。他付钱给商业捕捞者让他们不捕捞鲑鱼。 “我觉得将 鲑鱼数量恢复到 200 年前的历史水平是我一生的使命。 ” 1989 年，维格富松创建了北大西洋鲑鱼基金。借此筹款买断鲑鱼的商业捕捞权。 他说，从一开始他就意识到仅仅发钱是不够的。 ”因此，我们决定利用自身拥有的 专门技能，开发其它可持续发展渔业，比如在格陵兰，我们开发圆鳍鱼产业。现在， 格陵兰已是世界上最大的圆鳍鱼鱼子酱生产地和出口地。 ” 北大西洋鲑鱼基金已经为项目筹集 3500 万美元。基金开始和英国、格陵兰、法国， 挪威政府和商业捕鱼公司协商买断捕鱼权或者延缓捕鱼。据该基金最新估计，大西 洋公海鲑鱼商业捕捞量在过去 15 年下降幅度超过 75%。 今年其他戈德曼奖项还表彰了阻止在爱尔兰一个小社区铺设石油管道的平民努力， 保护加拿大北方针叶林的活动，支持秘鲁亚马孙河本地居民及雨林栖息地