Wildlife protection

Unit 4

We call them _______.wildlife

Animals or plants live or grow in natural conditions.

Name as many wild animals as you can according to the pictures given below.Which animals are in danger?

Game

lion

Tibetan antelope

blue whale

snow leopard

golden monkey

zebra

red-crowned crane

elephant

K o a l a

koala

milu deer

Panda

Problem

not enough food: loss of bamboo growing areas

One habitat in China

Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province

Number before concern

nearly all disappeared

Number after concern

about 1,600 after more than 50 reserves set up to protect bamboo areas

A report on some endangered wildlife in China

Milu deer

Problem

disappeared from China

One habitat in China

Nanhaizi Milu Park, Beijing

Number before concern

none

Number after concern

more than 2,500 after being brought back from UK

South China tiger

Problem

too much hunting in the 1950s

One habitat in China

Baishanzu National Natural Protection Zone, Zhejiang Province

Number before concern

very few

Number after concern

about 30-40 remain after being left in peace with no hunting

Why are they in danger

of disappearing?

Discussion

They cannot find enough food.

The forest has been destroyed. Their habitat is being threatened.

They are killed by the environmental pollution.

Human beings hunt them too much.

What do people kill them for?

fur &

skin

tusk

meat

Discussion

What can we do to help

endangered animals?

▪ reduce hunting, treat them as our friends▪ protect our environment▪ to set up nature reserves/protection zones▪ make laws to prevent them from being

caught and killed▪ the governments should educate people to

love nature and protect it ▪ raise money to help them

Measures to protect the endangered animals:

Wildlife is our friends.

They can keep the

balance of nature and

make the whole world

colorful. To protect

wildlife is to protect

ourselves.

Reading

HOW DAISY LEARNED

TO HELP WILDLIFE

Skimming to get

general ideas

Animal she met

Places she went

First visit

Second visit

Third visit

Fill in the table. Test your reading speed.

antelope Tibet

elephant Zimbabwe

Rainforestmonkey

Reading Comprehension ISkimming

antelope in Tibet

elephant in Africa

monkey in the rainforest

Read the passage to

find the main idea of

each paragraph and its

supporting details.

Paragraph Main idea Supporting details

1

Why we need wildlife protection

1 Animal: Tibetan antelope2 Situation: being hunted for the fur under its stomach3 Result: numbers are decreasing rapidly

Write down the main idea and the supporting details in the correct boxes. The first one is done for you.

Paragraph Main idea Supporting details

2

A good example of wildlife protection

1 Animal: elephants in Zimbabwe2 Situation: hunted with numbers decreasing rapidly3 Result: protected by the government and the numbers increased

Paragraph Main idea Supporting details

3 and 4

What we can get from wildlife protection

1 Animal: a millipede from a thick rainforest2 Situation: It contains a powerful drug which can protect us from mosquitoes3 Result: Daisy plans to tell WWF about the drug

1. Why has the antelope in Tibet become an endangered species? 2. Why are elephant numbers increasing in Zimbabwe?3. How does the government of Zimbabwe

help protect wild animals?4. Why is it important to protect the rainforest?

Reading Comprehension IV

Answer these questions below.

Scanning

1. Why has the antelope in Tibet become an endangered species?

2. Why are elephant numbers increasing in Zimbabwe?

Its fur is being used to make sweaters. As the sweaters become popular, more and more animals are killed. So very few antelopes are left.

The farmers stopped killing the elephants, so the numbers increased.

3. How does the government of

Zimbabwe help protect wild animals?

The government helps the farmers. It

makes sure that the tour companies

pay the farmers when tourists come

to visit and hunt a few animals.

4. Why is it important to protect the rainforest?

Looking after the rainforest helps protect plants and animals we know nothing about. They may make it possible for us to produce medicines and drugs that we don’t yet know about.

Live in harmony with the wildlife!

Quiz I: Retell the text by filling the following blanks. One day a ______ ______ took Daisy to see the animals. It flew away to _____ in China first, where she saw an ________. The antelope told her that they were being killed for the ____ beneath their ________. Then the flying carpet flew away to __________, where Daisy saw an ________.The elephant said _______ used to hunt them without ______. But with the help

Tibetantelope

wool stomachs

Zimbabwe elephant

farmersmercy

flying carpet

of the ___________, now the farmers are happy and their numbers are __________. Then the flying carpet took her to a thick _________. A _______ was rubbing a millipede _____ which contains a powerful ____ over his body. So Daisy decided to produce this new drug with the help of ______. The carpet rose and flew home. Although finally everything had _____, she had ______ so much.

monkeyinsect

drug

WWFgone

learned

rainforest

increasing

government

Think about what we’ve just learnt today.

Study without reflection is a waste of time.

After the class

It’s time to stop the class for you to look back in silence.

HomeworkCollect more information about wildlife protection.