BIODIVERSITY II +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Scanning: | | | |O/ decide what information is needed | | | |O/ draw up a list of possible key words (including synonyms) which may occur in the text | |referring to question topic | | | |O/ scan for instances of key words | | | |O/ read carefully those sentences and/or paragraphs where the keywords occur and decide if | |the information is relevant | | | |O/ repeat steps 3) and 4) until all relevant information is available | | | | | | | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1. Listening comprehension http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/homeplanet_20030715.shtml (timing 12:00) a) Complete the information on the Amazon Basin project: +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |object of observation |area |time |costs | |-------------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ b) A lot of species become extinct. Anna believes that essential is whether § we lose one species here and there species § the ecosystems continue functioning § hundreds of new species appear c) Choose the correct answer concerning the Biowatch Project: § The project takes place in: UK USA rainforest § People taking part in the observation are: scientists volunteers students Post-listening: Have you heard of similar projects focusing on biodiversity in the Czech Republic? Would you like to take part in a project like this? 1. Listen to the BBC piece of news (February 2006) and try to identify the topic. Listen again and note down whatever you can catch. The file is available in “osnova” (species-Papua2-06MP3) 2. The title and the first paragraph of the article have been removed. In three minutes try to identify the key topic. 3. Compare with your ‘listening notes’. 4. Listen again and complete your notes. 5. Now check what you have grasped – see reverse side of this page - and formulate the key idea in your own words (writing). 6. Scan the whole article and find answers to the following questions: a) Who has made the discovery? b) Where did it take place? c) How much time did the research team spend in that area? d) How did they get there? e) Had the local people been to that place before? f) Why is the discovery so important? 7. Homework: In the text translate the underlined sentences/expressions into Czech. Use natural language. Title: New species found in Papua 'Eden' Introductory paragraph: An international team of scientists says it has found a "lost world" in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of new animal and plant species. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Title ................................ | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Introductory paragraph........................... |pick them up and bring them| | |back to their camp to be | |"It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on |studied, he added. | |Earth," said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the group. | | | |The December 2005 | |The team recorded new butterflies, frogs, and a series of |expedition was organised by| |remarkable plants that included five new palms and a giant |the US-based organisation | |rhododendron flower. |Conservation International,| | |together with the | |The survey also found a honeyeater bird that was previously |Indonesian Institute of | |unknown to science. |Sciences. | | | | |The research group - from the US, Indonesia and Australia - |The team says it did not | |trekked through an area in the mist-shrouded Foja Mountains, |have nearly enough time | |located just north of the vast Mamberamo Basin of north-western |during its expedition to | |(Indonesian) New Guinea. |survey the area completely | | |and intends to return later| |The researchers spent nearly a month in the locality, detailing |in the year. | |the wildlife and plantlife from the lower hills to near the | | |summit of the Foja range, which reaches more than 2,000m in |The locality lies within a | |elevation. |protected zone and Mr | | |Beehler believes its future| |"It's beautiful, untouched, unpopulated forest; there's no |is secure in the short | |evidence of human impact or presence up in these mountains," Mr |term. | |Beehler told the BBC News website. | | | |"The key investment is the | |"We were dropped in by helicopter. There's not a trail anywhere;|local communities. Their | |it was really hard to get around." |knowledge, appreciation and| | |oral traditions are so | |He said that even two local indigenous groups, the Kwerba and |important. They are the | |Papasena people, customary landowners of the forest who |forest stewards who will | |accompanied the scientists, were astonished at the area's |look after these assets," | |isolation. |Mr Beehler told the BBC. | | | | |Mr Beehler said some of the creatures the team came into contact|"The men from the local | |with were remarkably unafraid of humans. |villages came with us and | | |they made it clear that no | |Two long-beaked echidnas, primitive egg-laying mammals, even |one they knew had been | |allowed scientists to On only the second day of the team's |anywhere near this area - | |expedition, the amazed scientists watched as a male Berlepsch's |not even their ancestors," | |bird of paradise performed a mating dance for an attending |Mr Beehler said. | |female in the field camp. | | | |Unafraid of humans | |It was the first time a live male of the species had been | | |observed by Western scientists, and proved that the Foja |One of the team's most | |Mountains was the species' true home. |remarkable discoveries was | | |a honeyeater bird with a | |"This bird had been filed away and forgotten; it had been lost. |bright orange patch on its | |To rediscover it was, for me, in some ways, more exciting than |face - the first new bird | |finding the honeyeater. I spent 20 years working on birds of |species to be sighted on | |paradise; they're pretty darn sexy beasts," Mr Beehler enthused.|the island of New Guinea in| | |more than 60 years. | |The team also recorded a golden-mantled tree kangaroo, which was| | |previously thought to have been hunted to near-extinction. |The researchers also solved| | |a major ornithological | | |mystery - the location of | | |the homeland of Berlepsch's| |Story from BBC NEWS: |six-wired bird of paradise.| |http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/4688000.stm| | | |First described in the late| | |19th century through | | |specimens collected by | | |indigenous hunters from an | | |unknown location on New | | |Guinea, the species had | | |been the focus of several | | |subsequent expeditions that| | |failed to find it. | | | | | |A summary of the team's | | |main discoveries: | | | | | | o A new species of | | | honeyeater, the first | | | new bird species | | | discovered on the | | | island of New Guinea | | | since 1939 | | | o The formerly unknown | | | breeding grounds of a | | | "lost" bird of paradise| | | - the six-wired bird of| | | paradise ( Parotia | | | berlepschi ) | | | o First photographs of | | | the golden-fronted | | | bowerbird displaying at| | | its bower. | | | o A new large mammal for | | | Indonesia, the | | | golden-mantled tree | | | kangaroo ( Dendrolagus | | | pulcherrimus ) | | | o More than 20 new | | | species of frogs, | | | including a tiny | | | microhylid frog less | | | than 14mm long | | | o A series of previously | | | undescribed plant | | | species, including five| | | new species of palms | | | o A remarkable | | | white-flowered | | | rhododendron with | | | flower about 15cm | | | across | | | o Four new butterfly | | | species | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------| | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |excess | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |extinction | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |unprecedented | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |susceptible | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |resistance | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |domesticated | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |medicinal | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |irreplaceable | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |diversity | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |preserve | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |halt | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |cautious | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |address | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |reserve | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |exploitation | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |insufficient | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |effective | | |---------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------| |exceeds | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+