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Africa’s great apes (大型类人猿) could lose between 85% and 94% of their range be 2050, a new study finds.

The threats     1    their habitats include climate change, land use, and human disturbance. If the pressure continues, their range     2    (continue) to shrink and their chances of survival will also be likely to decrease. With climate change, some of their lowland habitats are becoming    3     (dry), making it more difficult for great apes to stay. Animals    4    rely on those habitats have to shift their range in order to avoid extinction. All African great apes are classified as endangered or critically endangered. They’re all considered flagship species for    5    (conserve), the researchers point out.

The researcher Jacqueline Sunderland-Groves from University of British Columbia is part of the international team that studied how these threats have    6     impact on the survival of Africa’s apes. Their research    7    (publish) in the journal Diversity and Distributions.

New plans and measures to conserve great apes need to be made in the long term and employ the best science available to guide our efforts in many    8     (aspect). This study demonstrates how we can plan for great apes, placing our efforts on minimizing habitat loss, and extending the current network of    9     (protect) areas to maintain connectivity. We still have to rewrite the future for great apes, and now we just need    10     (make) this a reality.

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What species of dolphin is the smallest? Hector’s dolphin, Risso’s dolphin, Spinner dolphin    1    Dusky dolphin? The smallest dolphins    2    (be) Hector’s dolphins. They’re usually around four to five feet in length and 100 pounds in    3    (weigh).

And they are    4    (extreme) rare. You will only find Hector’s dolphins off the coast of New Zealand. And there’s a subspecies (亚种) of them called Maui dolphins    5    population has decreased to just a few dozen    6    (leave) in the wild. The biggest threat to Maui dolphins is when they’re caught    7    accident in the fishing industry. Disease, danger to their habitat and tourism    8    (suspect) in reducing their numbers, too.

But there’s a new eye in the sky and by that we mean a drone that aims to help Maui dolphins by locating, identifying and following them. The aircraft runs on electric and gas power. It’s estimated to cost $ 150. 000 and its aim is    9    (use) artificial intelligence technology to keep    10    eye on the 63 adult Maui dolphins that are still alive.

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Over the last 200 years, humans have become the dominant species on earth. As a result, the natural world     1    （suffer）greatly. Today, almost half of the planet’s land is used for agriculture and food     2     （produce）, forcing our wide spaces into dramatic retreat(消退). The global rate of extinction is     3     （high）than it’s ever been, while the climate crisis continues to speed up.

Therefore, many environmentalists are turning to “rewilding”,     4     is aimed at saving our disappearing biodiversity. So, what     5     （exact）is rewilding? In theory, the concept is simple: restore(修复)land,     6     let nature take back control. Currently, there are hundreds of rewilding projects taking place across Europe,     7     （spread）from the UK all the way down to the eastern Balkans.

For these projects to succeed, they need     8     special sort of person——highly skilled, and fiercely passionate individuals, or groups, willing to devote     9     （they）to the restoration of the wild. Because humans are responsible     10     the terrible state of the natural world, only significant human effort will make positive changes to the damage done.

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Boyan Slat, a Dutch inventor is cleaning the world’s most polluted rivers in an effort to save the oceans. He has made it his mission    1    (remove) plastic from the oceans. His organization, The Ocean Cleanup, has successfully started to clean the pollution that has been circling in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But millions more tons of plastic enter the oceans every year, almost all of it     2     (flow) from rivers.

Just 10 rivers are responsible for around 90% of all that plastic,     3    a 2017 study from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. “So     4    we focus on the worst rivers, we believe we can really have the fastest and most cost-effective way to close the tap and prevent more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place,” Slat said.

The Ocean Cleanup is effectively using floating trash collectors called “Interceptors”. These solar-powered, autonomous systems use the rivers’ currents to guide the trash onto a conveyor belt that carry the waste to     5     (await) bins.

The first interceptor went to work in Jakarta, Indonesia, to pull plastic from a waterway called the Cengkareng drain. A second interceptor began collecting trash flowing down the Klang river in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On the other side of the world,     6    Interceptor has recently started removing river pollution near the mouth of the Rio Ozama in the Dominican Republic.

“    7    the river is polluted, the fish die. Every year there are less fish,” Luis Peguero, a local fisherman, explained. When Peguero is lucky enough to reel in (收线拉起) a catch, it     8    not be safe for his family to eat. “You find stuff in the fish, especially the catfish. Trash, bottle lids, even a shoe. The fish can’t survive this,” said Peguero. To him, the modern trash-collecting catamaran (双体船) is a peculiar but welcome sight.

The Ocean Cleanup is working with the local governments and communities to help retrieve (取回) the plastic the Interceptors collect. “By stopping plastic in rivers, we hope to not only address the big global plastic pollution issue, but also really help make life better for the people    9    live near these problematic rivers,” said Slat.

The Ocean Cleanup’s goal is to tackle the thousand most polluted rivers within 5 years. Soon interceptors     10     (head) to Vietnam, Thailand, Jamaica and Los Angeles County in the United States.

“We are getting out tons of plastic every single day,” Slat said. “We accept that we won’t deliver magic in one go. But we’re doing this, step by step.”