【推荐1】In a little over a decade, Manas National Park, located in the northeastern India state of Assam, has seen great growth in its. greater one-horned rhino(独角犀牛) population. Plans for bringing rhinos back to Manas National Park were developed in2005, and translocations(转移) began in 2008 with individuals moved to Manas from other protected area in Assam.

During the first translocation in 2008, two adult males were successfully moved from Assam’s Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary to Manas. Over the next four years, 16 more rhinos were translocated to Manas from Kaziranga National Park and Pobitora. The translocated rhinos were radio-collared(套上无线电颈圈) to know about their health, movement, and behavior, and obtain important data for better management and conservation rhinos in the future. Before the translocations, the park was built to provide conditions for protecting the rhinos, since their safety is always a key consideration once the rhinos are moved.

Since 2008, 20 rhinos have been translocated and all translocated females have given birth at least once since they were moved to their new homes, with 26 babies born by April 2020.

Translocation are just one part of rhino conservation. Local communities that live near or share rhino habitats play an important role in helping to keep their population safe. The local government and many people have led efforts to involve local communities in conservation. They have provided support to local community conservation organizations in and around Manas to raise awareness on the importance of conservation in their area and train youth and other community members to help protect the park. In addition, these partners have been supporting communities to develop local tourism and offering communities to develop tourism in the area, which brings in additional livelihood opportunities.

Today, there are around 3,700 greater one-horned rhinos in Asia, up from only 200 at the beginning of the 20th century. While the species continues to face threats from hunting, signs of population growth like those from Manas are certainly cause for hope.

【推荐1】I’m the youngest of five children. By the time I was six, my siblings were gone, and we went from a very noisy house-hold to a very quiet one. My family has told me stories about how my siblings teased me in those years before they left. But I can recall very few stories of my own from that time.

Hardly any adult can. This is called infantile amnesia—the inability to recall the experience of early years. There has been a century of research about whether these memories are tucked away in some part of our brains and need only a reminder to be recovered. But research now suggests those memories simply disappear.

Psychologist Carole Peterson has conducted studies of children between the ages of 4 and 13, finding that people can’t recall much that happened before seven. In both children and adults, memory is strangely selective about what is left and what is gone.

“So much has to happen biologically to store a memory,” psychologist Patricia Bauer said. There’s “a race to get it stored before you forget it. It’s like making Jell-O: your mold (模型) has a tiny hole in it. You just hope your Jell-O — your memory — gets set before it leaks out through that tiny hole.”

Some people have more memories from early childhood than others do. Peterson found that children in China have fewer of these memories than children in Canada do. The finding might be explained by culture: Chinese people prize individuality less than North Americans and thus may be less likely to draw attention to the moments of an individual’s life.

If we can’t remember much from those years, does it matter what actually happened? Bauer says yes. Even if we don’t remember early events, they leave an imprint on the way we understand and feel about ourselves, other people, and the greater world. We aren’t just the sum of our memories, or at least not entirely. We are also the story we construct about ourselves. And that’s a story that we will never forget.

【推荐1】A new survey reviews that more than 60% of websites and apps intended for Canadian children may be collecting personal information and passing it on to a third party. The survey was completed by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network, which reviewed 1,494 websites and apps.

Focusing on trends among Canadian users, the sweep team reviewed 118 websites and apps targeted directly at children, as well as 54 that are known to be popular with and used by kids. The team’s findings showed that more than 50% of Canadian sites collect personal information from children, including names, addresses, phone numbers and photos, audio or video. In addition, 62% of sites admitted they may show that personal information to third parties. Another 62% allowed the user to be redirected to a different site, and only 28% of the sites and apps involved any form of parental control or protection.

A member of the team Tobi Cohen, outlined a few of the sites that did and did not live up to the standards of children’s privacy online. She praised both Family.ca and Lego.com for their message boards that did not allow users to post personal information, and noted that santasvillage. ca asked users to provide their full name and email address. Gamezhero.com was also singled out for allowing users to display personal information, including names, age, sex and locations. Pbskids.org, on the other hand, was praised for only offering generic, pre-set avatars (头像) and barring users form uploading personal photos.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada refused to release a full list of the websites and apps reviewed. When asked what would be done with results, commissioner Daniel Therrien said that companies reviewed in the sweep would be kept informed of the findings. “It’s our usual practice after conducting a sweep to write a number of companies to point out the things that we’ve seen, to sometimes ask that things be changed, and on the whole the companies react positively to these requests.” Therrien added.

In an attempt to help kids better understand why their privacy matters, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has created a lesson plan for kids in Grade 7 and 8 that explains the Global Privacy Enforcements Network and has kids conduct privacy reviews of their own.

“We know that companies are not the only ones responsible for the protection of kids’ privacy.” Therrien said. “Parents and teachers obviously have a role. We have a role, particularly in the area of increasing awareness of privacy issues among the public.”

Matthew Johnson, director of education at Media Smarts, said that the sweep’s results were sadly unsurprising. Media Smarts, an Ottawa-based non-profit digital literacy outfit intended to improve media literacy and empowering the youth to better engage with media, offers age-appropriate tips to parents concerned with keeping their kids safe online.

Johnson explained that in addition to educating themselves on the issue, the best thing parents could do to protect children’s privacy online is to educate kids on the importance of the function of their personal data. He mentioned an initiative by Media Smarts called Privacy Pirates, an online game that aims to teach kids at the age of seven to nine that all forms of personal information should be protected and added that their personal information has value and they should think twice before giving it out.