quán qiú全球bǎo hù保护nǔ lì努力ràng让xǔ duō许多bīn wēi wù zhǒng濒危物种chóng xīn重新zēng jiā增加
The United Nations once warned that many animals and plants around the world were close to disappearing, due to habitat destruction, pollution, global warming, and overhunting.
The good news, however, is that conservation work has really been effective in many places.
In Mongolia, the Przewalski's horse once disappeared from the wild, but after years of breeding and reintroduction, there are now more than 1,000 in Mongolia.
In Nepal, the government, environmental groups, and local communities worked together to protect the Bengal tiger, and the tiger population increased from 121 in 2010 to 355 in 2022.
In India, a group of young female forest rangers protected the one-horned rhinoceros and helped reduce poaching.
In Russia, the Amur leopard and the Amur tiger have also been slowly recovering because of protected areas, camera monitoring, and community cooperation.
There is also hope in the sea.
In some parts of Southeast Asia, people are planting coral and creating marine protected areas to help marine life return home.
In Venezuela, environmentalists are also calling on people not to eat young sharks, because sharks are very important to the marine ecosystem.
These stories show us that as long as governments, scientists, and ordinary people work together, endangered animals have a chance to come back.