英语听力：Wild China 美丽中国：彩云之南-15

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The jungles of Yunnan are increasingly under pressure. New roads crisscross the tiny remnant forests, the infrastructure³ needed for trade, industry and increasingly tourism. It’s a meeting of two very different worlds. That elephants still exist in China is remarkable⁴, considering the immense pressures in the world’s most highly populated country. The 250 or so wild elephants which still live here are now strictly⁵ protected. And each year young are born to the small herds⁶. If elephants were to survive anywhere in China, it could only have been here, in Yunnan. The same mountains, which guide the monsoon⁷ rains north, and which made Joseph Rock’s journeys so treacherous⁸, also guarded Yunnan’s forests and its wildlife.

 

For the moment, the mountains are still carpeted in a rich green, deceptive⁹ in its simplicity¹⁰. Below the canopy¹¹ lies perhaps China’s richest natural treasure, delicate and unique, a complex world of intricate relationships between animals, plants and people beneath the clouds.

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