멸종위기에 놓인 아시아 호랑이

This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Meet Tiger Woods. Not the golfer, obviously 분명히, but a pretty impressive 강한 인상을 주는 cat in his own right 당연히. “He’s huge. He is huge. And he’s only two.” This Tiger Woods and his famously named pals 친구 Madonna and Cathay are all south china tigers, the most endangered <동식물이> 멸종될 위기에 이른 species 종 of big cats in the world today.

 

Li Quan is breaking all the rules of conservation 보호 to try to save their dying breed <동식물의> 품종. “If we don’t do anything drastic 과감한, they may go extinct 멸종하다 forever.”

 

Li’s drastic plan is to take these zoo raised animals from Asia and put them in an environment in Africa where they can learn to be wild 야생의, 사람 손에 의하지 않은 again. When Li saw the poor conditions in which these tigers were living in China five years ago, she devoted herself fulltime to ~에 일신을 바치다, ~에 전념하다 the cause 목적 and launched 착수하다 an ambitious 야심을 가진 dream to save this Asian tiger in South Africa where no tigers exist in the wild.

 

Moving wild animals is always a risky business, especially when you bring them half way across the world. But this project has attracted particularly strong criticism 비평, 비판 from some cat experts who say there are too few south china tigers left and too many risks to be gambling with the future of an entire species.

 

The tiger’s chief handler Peter Openshaw had his doubts at first, but now believes the open spaces and wildlife <집합적> 야생 생물 expertise 전문적 기술<지식> in South Africa can save these Asian tigers. Openshaw initially 처음에는 had to hunt four of them. After spending their lives in a zoo, these tigers had never even eaten wild meat. And both the dead animal was a toy.

 

Now, when Openshaw drops a carcass <짐승의> 시체 in a field, and blows his whistle 호각, within seconds, the tigers rush across the grasslands 목초지, 초원 ready to pounce 와락 덤벼들다. After three years, Tiger Woods and the others are successfully able to hunt for themselves. Getting to the Chinese wild via ~을 거쳐 South Africa maybe a roundabout 돌아가는, 우회적인 way, but to Li Quan, it’s better than no way at all. Lara Logan, CBS News, Valley Reserve, South Africa.

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