Name: BBC News Review: Elephants killed in Gabon
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Hello, and welcome to news Review the program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

So today we have a story about a large animal, which is in great danger.

Okay, well, let's find out some more from this.

A new report says Gabon has lost 80% of its elephant population over the past decade.

Researchers in the United States say that about 25,000 of the back in terms have been slaughtered.

So a story from Africa there on the elephant population off the country off Gabon has gone down by 80% in the last 10 years.

Now this is happening because of illegal hunting, which researchers say is responsible for the death off 25,000 elephants.

You've been looking at it online, the various news websites and what are the words that keep coming up?

Okay, so suitably serious vocabulary is coming up on.

Poachers on decimate carnage poachers and decimate so that first word carnage.

Okay, so let's go to the BBC news website.

The headline here is Carnage in Gabon's Elephant Sanctuary.

Meaning the killing off large numbers of people or animals?

Yes, on dit is a word that describes or makes you think off a really nasty, violent scene.

We're talking about a lot of death, a lot of destruction, body parts blowed.

Carnage is it would be used to describe things that war on natural disasters, earthquakes, for example.

So it's a really kind of a word, a horrible words, really, to describe a lot of death and destruction.

Um, because of the deaths of these animals.

Yes, we also can use it more generally to describe a situation where there's a lot of destruction.

Yeah, it doesn't have to be about death, but we can use it in a sort of serious sense to describe something that might happen in the world of business, for example, or two.

In the world of work, you have a meeting where everybody's arguing and shouting.

You could describe that meeting as carnage.

Yeah, you could say that there was carnage on the stock exchange.

Yeah, it doesn't mean that there was death and destruction.

No, it means that there was a large amount of damage or yeah, maybe eruption.

Yeah, maybe a lot of people lost a lot of lot of money on the stock exchange.

One day you say that you could describe that is carnage, and that's a completely acceptable use of the word.

It doesn't show any disrespect to a really death situation.

And you can even use it in a kind of quite light hearted way.

Sometimes to describe the situation that's kind of out of control and quite messy.

I hear you have a birthday in your house.

There was laughter and crying and screaming and cake and flew games and mainly noise, right?

Yeah, you could describe that as carnage, carnage, but there was no one got.

There were no bodies, anything, a different sort of meaning.

OK, so now let's move on to the Huffington Post on We have the headline.

Poachers have all but emptied this century off forest elephants.

People who catch and kill animals illegally to eat or sell.

These people have gone on to this area of forest which has protected.

If they don't have a right to these animals, they've gone on with weapons.

And they've taken either the whole animal or the body parts away either to eat.

Those people are poachers on the verb is to poach.

Yeah, and it can be again used in a more sort of light hearted way.

Meaning to kind of steel in a slightly cheeky fashion.

It's not disrespectful to use this word in a light hearted way.

And let's talk about the BBC Learning English Football League.

Yes, I'm Neil City, and I discovered a new player for my team, Bravo, who has lots of many talents and one of them is football.

You made the mistake of telling, Well, I was.

And what happened next week when we had a game of football?

He was playing on your team, playing for Neil City, and we were, and I'm not happy about it.

I won't be forgetting this in a hurry, so to poach, coming to take someone from to take a player or someone with talent or an idea, an idea that's for somebody else and claim it for yourself.

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