World News for Students of English

11-03-2021 07:00

The impressive sight of elephants roaming beneath Mount Kilimanjaro has long brought wildlife lovers to Amboseli National Park on Kenya’s border with Tanzania.

However, the elephants’ ability to move freely may be under threat from an unexpected adversary, avocados.

A Kenyan agricultural company has farms across 175 acres of land near Amboseli, and now it’s building nurseries with the intention of growing the fruit that has a popularity growing worldwide because of its high nutritional value. However, conservationists say that the plans and electric fence on the farm will block the important wildlife corridor where elephants move between three national parks. Two thousand Amboseli elephants and many other wildlife species could be affected by the avocado farm.

The company said that it obtained the land legally and then received government approval in 2020. According to the farm’s manager, the farm will be a source of employment, and it will increase the value of the land.

Difficult words: adversary (an opponent in a conflict), corridor (a long narrow area of land), obtain (to get something).

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