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Environmental activists in Sri Lanka are fighting a court decision they say puts elephants     1    risk. The ban, on September 16, allows people who have been accused of illegally buying or capturing wild elephants    2    (keep) them in captivity.

Elephants are    3    (high) respected in Sri Lanka culture. About 14,000 elephants lived in the Southern Asian nation 200 years ago, but habitat    4    (lose) and hunting have reduced that number to about 7,500 in the wild. Officials found that by 2015, 38 baby elephants    5    (hunt) from national parks and sold to people as pets. They took the elephants to    6    (safe).

Earlier this year, the Sri Lankan government issued new rules that permit people to keep elephants     7    working animals or pets, even if they were illegally taken from the wild. On September 6, based on those rules, a local court ordered the return of 14 of the elephants to their owners. Wildlife activists then challenged the order,    8    (argue) that it goes against environmental laws and would cause more elephants to be taken from the wild. Ten days later,     9    court said it would not change its order. The activists are continuing to fight and they hope for a decision     10    will protect these elephants and save others from hunting in the future.

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After graduating from the university     1     a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology in 2020, Jiang Ming started work as a keeper at the forest zoo, which is home to more than 3, 000 animals from 260 species.

Born and raised in a rural area of Jiangsu, he     2     (love) animals and watched documentaries about them since childhood.

During his job interview at the zoo, when Jiang was asked     3     he had any experience in saving animals, he said the first one he     4     (help) rescue was a small turtle his father found in a river near his village.

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The South China National Botanical Garden opened on July 11 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is the second national botanical garden in China,     1    (follow)the Beijing National Botanical Garden. With both gardens located in different climate     2     (zone), the species of plants that can be conserved in Guangzhou differ     3     (complete) from those in the Beijing garden.

With a total area of 333 hectares of exhibition and scientific research, the Guangzhou garden is the     4    (large) subtropical (亚热带的) botanical garden in the world, as well as one of China’s oldest institutions for botanical research and conservation. It is home     5     about 17,000 species of ex-situ (异地的) plants away from their natural habitats, including 643 rare and endangered plants     6     337 wild plant species on national key protection lists. So far, 36 species of rare and endangered plants, such as Camellia azalea and Dunnia sinensis,     7     (return) to the wild thanks to the garden.   

As one of the countries with the richest plant diversity in the world, China has more than 37,000 known species of land plants,     8     account for about 10 percent of the total in the globe. The     9     (found) of the national botanical garden system will enable the country     10     (protect) its plant diversity more effectively.

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Chile cracks down on Easter Island tourism to protect the environment

Chile    1    (crack) down on tourists and non—local residents on its remote Easter Island in the following years, in a bid    2    (protect) the famed destination’s environment and heritage, and tackle rising crime.

New rules came into effect on Wednesday reducing the time that tourists—foreigners, but also Chileans not part of the Rapa Nui people—can stay on the island from 90 to 30 days.

Those wishing to visit Easter Island    3     now fill out a special form, have a hotel reservation or present a letter of invitation from an islander, along with showing round trip tickets. Those who wish to live on the island are required to be a parent, partner or child of the Rapa Nui people.    4     who will be allowed to stay are public servants, employees of organizations that provide services to the government, and those who develop an independent economic activity alongside their families.

The new rules will also establish a yet-to-be-decided maximum capacity.    5     its isolated location some 3,500 kilometres from the coast of mainland Chile, the island is one of    6    (popular)tourist destinations across the globe, not least due to the around 900 giant human figures that line the island,    7    (stand) up to 10 metres tall.

The Moai monumental statues    8    (carve) by the Rapa Nui people, believed to have arrived on the Pacific island around the 12th century. But tourists and mainland migrants have become a threat to the island’s well—being. “It is a magical island    9     we all want to visit, but it is also a sensitive island and therefore we have to take care of it,” Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera said Wednesday, speaking on the country’s 24-hour news channel. “Environmentally the island is very fragile, ”Ana Maria Gutierrez, the local government’s environmental adviser told AFP. For Mayor Edmunds, the legislation is a good start    10     not enough. Like“ many other Rapa Nui”, he said he favours a “total” ban on the arrival of new residents.

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Beaches across the planet share many features: sand, water, ocean gentle winds — and plastic. At Floyd Bennett Field, the coastal area     1     artist Barry Rosenthal goes collecting, rubbish piles up fast and in layers, as if at an archaeological (考古的) site.

Plastics will indeed be the product of our age,     2     (particular) in oceans where the material goes into ecosystems and floats around the world. More than millions and millions of pieces of plastic already fill the seas, with some nine million tons     3    (add) each year.

Rosenthal observed how bottles,     4    (toy), and food boxes fade, wear out, yet never disappear. He started building and photographing sculptures (雕像) of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of ocean pollution. Finally he began to gather the rubbish to use as his art materials, cleaning     5     small part of the coast over and over again. “I started to just collect as much as I could and go back to my studio to sort       6     out,” he says. Each sculpture has a theme, by color, shape, or intended use, such as the oil containers.

A project begun for aesthetics (美学) has got a     7    (two) purpose: raising social and environmental awareness. Over the last few years, Rosenthal     8    (tour) to speak about ocean pollution and what might help clean it up. The most     9    (meaning) advance, he says, would be to rethink our method of consuming (消费). “We need a change in all packaging design     10    (make) people feel good,” he says.