Name: Oxford Discover 5 Unit 2 Save our tigers
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SAVE OUR TIGERS! The Foothills of the Himalayas

The Himalayas are the highest range of mountains on Earth.

Below this range, there are foothils containing jungles, forests, rivers, and lakes. These

hills once provided a home to many diverse types of wildlife:

tigers, leopards, rhinoceroses, and deer.

many of those animals have disappeared. People have cleared the forests to grow crops,

Usually, it's humans who scare and kill animals,

About a hundred years ago, a few starving tigers and leopards terrified the people who

Instead of eating other animals, like buffalo and anincpes,

some of these big cars started kiling and eating people.

The cats had names like the Tiger of Chowgarh,

the Thak Man-Eater, the Champarat Tigress, and the Panard Leopard.

As a small bor, Jim Corbett was fascinated by wildlife.

He taught himself to identify animals and birds by the sounds they made.

The government asked him to track and shoot

Corbett shot and killed nineteen tigers and fourteen leopards.

He did this on foot, sometimes accompanied by his dog.

and he took many risks to save people's lives.

The first tiger he shot was the Champawa Tiger.

a tiger that killed more than 436 people.

Jim wondered why the tigers and leopards were kiling people.

When he examined the cats that he had shot,

Some had gunshot wounds from poachers who hunted them ilegally.

Poaching was common because people could sell tiger skins for deccration

One tiger had a gunshot wound in its mouth,

It could no longer attack buffalo and antelopes.

Other tigers had injuries and infections from porcupine quills getting stuck in their skin.

The reason they were eating people was that they couldn't hunt other animals. Corbett

After his decoveries, Jim became interested in consenation.

He had a new mission: the preservation of tigers.

He gave lectures and inspired people to respect wildlife-

especially the big cats, which he loved and respected.

the oldest national park in India got a new names:

It's a sanctuary for ligers, leopards, and other endanged animas.

There's even a species of tiger named after Jim called Corbett's Tiger.

No one is sure what the total population of Corbett's Tigers is,

But thanks to conservationists like Jim Corbett,

there are now more than 35 tigers reserves in India.

Saving the tiger means preserving the entire food chain.

and that means protecting deer and other animals.

Next,we need to save plants,trees,and grassess

we protect our forests and rivers and all the birds, animals, and insects that live

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