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For my presentation today, I want to tell you about how groups of elephants have been moved and settled in new reserves. This is known as translocation and has been carried out in Malawi in Africa in recent years. The reason this is being done is because of overpopulation of elephants in some areas. Overpopulation is a good problem to have and not one we tend to hear about very often. 

今天，我想向大家介绍如何将大象迁移到新的保护区。这被称为迁移，近年来在非洲的马拉维已经实施。这样做的原因是一些地区的大象数量过剩。人口过剩是一个好问题，但我们很少听到。

In Malawi's Mageti National Park, the elephant population had been wiped out by poachers who killed the elephants for their ivory. But in 2003, the park was restocked and effective law enforcement was introduced. Since then, not a single elephant has been poached. In this safe environment, the elephant population boomed. 

在马拉维的马盖蒂国家公园，大象种群被偷猎者消灭，他们为了象牙而杀死大象。但在 2003 年，公园重新放养了大象，并引入了有效的执法措施。从那时起，没有一头大象被偷猎。在这个安全的环境中，大象数量激增。

Breeding went so well that there were more elephants than the park could support. This led to a number of problems. Firstly, there was more competition for food, which meant that some elephants were suffering from hunger as there was a limit to the amount of food in the national park. Some elephants began looking further afield. 

繁殖进展顺利，大象数量超过了公园所能承受的数量。这导致了许多问题。首先，食物竞争加剧，这意味着一些大象正在挨饿，因为国家公园的食物量有限。一些大象开始向更远的地方看齐。

Elephants were routinely knocking down fences around the park, which then had to be repaired at a significant cost. To solve this problem, the decision was made to move dozens of elephants from Magetti National Park to Kotakota Wildlife Park, where there were no elephants. But obviously, attempting to move significant numbers of elephants to a new home 300 km away is quite a challenge.

大象经常撞倒公园周围的围栏，而修复围栏需要花费大量资金。为了解决这个问题，决定将数十头大象从马盖蒂国家公园迁移到没有大象的科塔科塔野生动物园。但显然，试图将大量大象迁移到 300 公里外的新家是一项相当大的挑战。

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