The beautiful Li River attracts (million) of domestic and foreign visitors each year. However, a report said the water had been seriously polluted and that some actions had been taken to deal with it.
Water quality in the Li River had suffered greatly from an increasing volume of tourists, many offrequently threw garbage into the river. Many tour boats contributedthe problem, too. The local population rose(rapid),as well asnumber of commercial and industrial enterprises. Water pollution levels increased, with more household and commercial waste(end) up in the river. To feed more people, more chemicals(use) to increase crop(product). These chemicals led to severe water quality issues, causing a decrease in the number of fish species.
Local officials were(concern) that the pollution was damaging the natural environment. Finally, a series of urgent steps were taken (restore) the river's original beauty. With these measures, it is believed that the beauty of the Li River will come back soon.
A UK charity has helped rescue two baby orangutans (猩猩) who were found by the police in West Borneo caged and ready to be sold through social media to illegal buyers. A man was arrested for the illegal deals of wildlife both directly and by using online social media sites. The two orangutans, a one-year-old male and an eight-month-old female, who were discovered in tiny cages are now in the care of International Animal Rescue (IAR) at its centre in Ketapang, Borneo.
A spokeswoman for the charity based in Uckfield, East Sussex, said,"The general condition of the two orangutans is fair, although both are in the state of being in extreme danger and needing urgent help. One of them is rocking back and forth—this is an abnormal behaviour presented by animals in extremely stressful conditions."
David Muhammad, head of the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, said the orangutans were captured by a hunter in Sintang, Indonesia, and collected by the arrested man who was selling them for about ￡175. Orangutans in Borneo have experienced rapid declines of up to 60% in the last 50 years, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The Bornean orangutan is now declared "critically endangered" as forests shrink. The two new arrivals bring the total number of orangutans in IAR's centre in Ketapang to 111.
Karmele Llano Sanchez, programme director of IAR Indonesia, said, "Having such a large number of orangutans undergoing rehabilitation(康复), with more having to be rescued, makes it harder and harder to find safe places where we can release them. If we do not address the root cause of the problem, we will never stop the decline of orangutans in the wild."
When Laura Wood's senior year began, she was expecting to talk to the usual handful of members in the Environmental Club of Scarborough.1, she found herself standing in front of 60 of her peers.
The year before Wood took over as 2, the new club was still trying to establish itself. As the first meeting 3, she worked hard to advertise that the club still existed and was looking for 4 members. Her campaign worked. Sixty 5 showed up to hear what Wood would say about helping to improve the local environment.
"It was 6," said Wood. "I really wasn't 7 60 kids, you know, because last year there were only 10. We want to help purchase our school the first 8 minibus. "
Under Wood's direction, the club suddenly started to grow 9. Later, it opened the green bus bank account.
With the club, Wood also collected cans and paper both to raise more money and to help the school reduce 10. This wasn't always an easy job. Wood didn't just pick up 11; she sorted the useful waste out, sometimes after it had been 12 thrown away. "We'd be a little 13 most of the time in the afternoons," said Wood.
By the end of the year they had been 14 about $60 a week by saving the cans and bottles.
This is what Wood usually goes about starting change: quietly but effectively. "She's a 15 kid," said Principal Andrew Dolloff. "She just doesn't do flashy (招摇的) things to get noticed."
