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The document is a transcript from a video about the Phnom Tamao Rescue Centre in Cambodia. The rescue centre cares for over 800 animals of 86 species that have been rescued from poachers. Many of the animals were victims of the illegal wildlife trade and poaching in Cambodia. While some rescued animals can be returned to the wild, many need to stay at the rescue center to receive care and protection, since without human help they would not survive or would be at risk of being poached again. The rescue center is helping wildlife that has been impacted by poaching, but illegal poaching continues to threaten species as long as there is demand for animal products.

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Pre-Int - Unit12 - 12f Script 1 For Listening Practice

The document is a transcript from a video about the Phnom Tamao Rescue Centre in Cambodia. The rescue centre cares for over 800 animals of 86 species that have been rescued from poachers. Many of the animals were victims of the illegal wildlife trade and poaching in Cambodia. While some rescued animals can be returned to the wild, many need to stay at the rescue center to receive care and protection, since without human help they would not survive or would be at risk of being poached again. The rescue center is helping wildlife that has been impacted by poaching, but illegal poaching continues to threaten species as long as there is demand for animal products.

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Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book

Life 12f Page 151 VIDEOSCRIPT

Cambodia Animal Rescue


Part 1

00.00–01.00 Dara the tiger loves lying around and relaxing. She also likes to be
touched and talked to. And, like many other animals, she loves to play.
Unfortunately, Dara, and the other animals at the Phnom Tamao Rescue Centre, are
all victims of the illegal poaching of wild animals in Cambodia.

Many animals at the centre are brought in by a special team called the ‘Wilderness
Protection Mobile Unit’, or the ‘MU’. The MU rescues animals from poachers.
With the support of the government of Cambodia, they’re working to stop
poaching.

In many cases, rescued animals can be returned to the wild.

In others, like with these crested eagles, the animals need special care.

01.00–01.06 Matt Young works for Wild Aid, a US group that sponsors the MU
and the rescue centre.

01.06–01.10 Matt Young Once we’re sure they’re nice and healthy again, we can
get them out to Kirirom and re-release them.

01.10–01.16 These wild eagles are ‘hand fed’, or given their food by hand, and they
don’t always like it!

01.16–01.18 Matt Young Did you get that? Fantastic!

01.18–01.26 The crested eagles will probably be released back into the wild
someday. However, many of the animals here will need human help forever.

01.26–01.41 This little gibbon lived in a birdcage at a petrol station for two years.
She’s now at Phnom Tamao. They’re helping her to become healthy, but they
probably won’t be able to release her again. She’ll likely be safer and happier at the
centre.

01.41–01.49 Mimi was also someone’s pet. A volunteer who works for ‘Free the
Bears’, which sponsors Mimi, explains ...

01.49–01.59 Shiree Harris A family bought it for their little daughter, but they
only kept her for, I think they said four weeks, and then they realised she was too
hard to handle, a bit nippy and everything – so they just brought her in.

01.59–02.09 Like the little gibbon, if Mimi were in the wild, she probably wouldn’t
have the skills to survive. The best place for her, too, is clearly the rescue centre.

Part 2

02.09–02.48 Unfortunately, there is one thing many of these animals have in


common; poachers want them! If many of these beautiful animals were not at the
rescue centre, they would be dead.

The leader of Wild Aid explains what part of the problem is for tigers. She says that
poachers can make a lot of money by selling a tiger’s body parts illegally. In some
Asian countries, certain parts of the tiger are ground into powder. This powder is
processed and sold as an expensive traditional medicine. People think that taking
the product will improve their health. No one knows if this is true, but it’s definitely
not good for the tigers.

02.48–03.18 The Phnom Tamao Rescue Centre cares for over 800 animals of 86
different types, or species, including this friendly elephant.

Lucky was saved from poachers two years ago.

Little Sima has been at Phnom Tamao for six months.

It’s hard to think that these animals may never return to their home in the wild.
They can’t survive with support and help from humans.

03.18–end The Phnom Tamao Rescue Centre is helping poaching victims in


Cambodia. Unfortunately, the bigger problem of illegal poaching is still around. It
will be as long as there’s a demand for products that are made from these animals.
Life For now, we can only hope that the MU can help stop more wild
animals from becoming endangered. Thanks to the Phnom Tamao
Rescue Centre, they’ll have a safe place to go.

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