Number eight, test two.0:04
You will hear a dialogue, listen to it and decide which of the facts in your test book are true, false or not stated in the dialogue0:07
discussing giant pandas.0:30
Roy, you are wearing a badge with a panda.0:35
Are you a member of the World Wildlife Fund?0:38
I've been a member of this international organization for several years already.0:43
All its members wear such badges.0:48
We try to protect wildlife on the planet.0:50
Why do you think the panda has been chosen as its symbol on the badge?0:54
WWF protects endangered species of wild animals.0:59
And giant pandas, as you know, has become one of the rarest wild animals.1:03
It was in real danger to become extinct.1:09
I think that was the reason to make it World Wildlife Fund symbol.1:13
You say pandas were in great danger.1:18
Is the situation improving?1:21
In my opinion, it is in China, its natural habitat.1:24
The government and its people are fighting to save their national treasure, as they call the animal.1:29
No one may cut down bamboo forests or catch pandas.1:36
Why is bamboo under protection?1:41
It is pandas main food, though they also eat flowers, grass and sometimes small animals.1:44
Giant pandas live in the mountains of southwestern China.1:51
In thick forests of fir trees and bamboo.1:55
But bamboo, a tall wooded grass, has a strange life cycle.1:59
The plant grows for almost 100 years.2:05
Then suddenly it flowers, drops its seeds and dies.2:09
The seeds grow very slowly.2:14
So for a long time, there is no bamboo on a certain territory.2:16
Because all the bamboos in one place flower and die at the same time.2:20
As a result, pandas have to move to some other bamboo forest, to some other area for food.2:26
Yes, but the problem is that lots of bamboo forests that covered much of China in ancient times have been cut down so often.2:32
When bamboo dies, there is nowhere for pandas to go.2:41
But what is being done for pandas?2:47
There are now special nature reserves for pandas.2:51
Teams of scientists study them.2:54
They try to breed pandas in new zoos and grow different kinds of bamboo for them.2:56
So people have started to work with nature after all.3:02
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