Indian Zoo Celebrates Elephant
印度動物園歡慶大象日
本則影音新聞出處：新唐人電視台英語新聞
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_life/2010-10-05/665256673071.html
【新聞關鍵字】
1. participate in: [pɑrˋtɪsə͵pet] [ɪn] ph. 參加
2. awareness: [əˋwɛrnɪs]n. 意識、察覺
3. conserve: [kənˋsɝv] v. 保護
4. attraction: [əˋtrækʃənn. 吸引力
5. adorn with: ph. 裝飾
6. jumbo: [ˋdʒʌmbon. 龐然大物
7. roam: [rom] v. 漫遊（步）
8. comprehensive: [͵kɑmprɪˋhɛnsɪv] adj. 綜合的
9. census: [ˋsɛnsəs] n. 統計數
10. steep: [stip] adj. 急劇升降
11. encroachment: [ɪnˋkrotʃmənt] n. 侵佔
12. infrastructure: [ˋɪnfrə͵strʌktʃɚ n. 基礎建設
On Monday, visitors and school children participated in “Elephant Day” at a local zoo in Orissa, India.
週一，印度遊客和學生參加奧里薩邦當地動物園的「大象日」。
[Sudershan Panda, Nandankanan Zoological Park]:
“The main objective of celebrating ‘Elephant Day’ is to create awareness among the public, including the students, about how to conserve the big animal.”
「慶祝大象日的主要目的是引起大眾意識，包括學生，有關如何保護大型動物。」
[Sudershan Panda, Nandankanan Zoological Park]Nandankanan動物園Sudershan Panda說：
The main attraction was two orphan elephant calves, ‘Chandan’ and ‘Anant’ who were rescued by the zoo when they were just three-months-old.
主要的吸引力是兩隻孤兒大象，Chandan和Anant在三個月大時被動物園拯救。
Adorned with special costumes, the jumbos were offered bananas and coconuts.
巨型象裝飾著特殊服裝，被提供香蕉和椰子。
[Subhashree Sahoo, Visitor]:
“By celebrating this day we feel very happy and we enjoy it a lot. We also get an opportunity to give them food.”
[Subhashree Sahoo, Visitor]遊客Subhashree說：
「藉由這天的慶祝，我們感到非常高興也很享受。我們也得到一個機會可以餵食他們。」
The event is part of Wildlife Week that began on October 2nd.
這次活動是10月2日開始的野生動物週的一部分。
Home to 50 thousand wild Asian elephants a century ago, India had just over 26 thousand jumbos roaming in its national parks and forests in 2002. However, the first comprehensive elephant census published in 2005 showed a steep drop in the numbers to just over 21 thousand.
一世紀前，印度是5萬隻野生亞洲象的居住地，2002年，印度只有 26,000多隻巨型象，漫步在國家公園和森林裡。然而，2005年第一次發表的大象全面統計顯示，大象數量急劇下降，只有 21,000多隻。
Most of India’s elephants live in protected forest reserves spread across 14 states from north to south of the country, but even these elephants are under pressure from human encroachment and infrastructure development activities.
大多數的印度象住在森林保謢區，地點分佈在印度從北至南，橫跨14個邦，但這些大象甚至是處在人類侵佔和基礎建設發展活動的壓力下。
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