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Elephant Conservation

    Country : Thailand

    This is a working vacation at a wildlife centre. Anyone can become a volunteer if he/she agrees to help the elephant keepers with tasks.

    Daily tasks

    Collect the elephants at 6: 30 a.m. Take them to look for food in the forest. Clean the enclosure. Swim with the elephants in the lake in the afternoon. If volunteers want to relax after work, they can watch satellite television.

    How this vacation helps

    If these elephants hadn't been rescued, they would still be living on the streets of Bangkok. A rural environment is much better for them than an urban environment where there is lots of pollution.

Gorilla Safari

    Countries: Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda

    Departures: Aug. —Dec., 2—3 departures per month

    Extras: gorilla permit £ 220

    If you're lucky, you'll see lions, elephants and rhinos on safari. The highlight of the trip is the opportunity to see gorillas in the mountain forests. However, you must be in good health—if a gorilla caught a cold, it would be extremely harmful to its whole family.

    How this vacation helps

    There are only about 600 mountain gorillas left in the world as human activity has reduced the area where they can live. When you buy a permit, this will pay for the protection of the national park.

Polar Bear Watching

    Country: Canada

    Departures: sixty trips between Oct. 1 —Nov. 19

    Every October and November, groups of polar bears gather in Hudson Bay. As they are normally lonely creatures, this is unusual. The bears wait for the ocean to freeze so they can hunt seals, so this is the perfect opportunity to see them.

    How this vacation helps

    If the Arctic ice cap melts due to global warming, polar bears will be in danger. We give a share of our profits to the Polar Bears Alive Charity.

    Your comment

    These awesome bears get all the liquid they need from their food.

1.What will an elephant volunteer do?
A.Take food for elephants at 6:30 a.m.               B.Sweep the houses of elephants.
C.Wash elephants in the lake in the afternoon.     D.Watch satellite television on elephants.
2.What do we know about Gorilla Safari?
A.You can find gorillas in Kenya and Canada.      B.You might get a cold in the mountain forests.
C.Visitors need to pay $220 to see 600 gorillas.   D.There are about 10 trips to visit gorillas.
3.What can we know from the last paragraph?
A.Polar bears don't need to drink water.             B.Polar bears store the liquid in their food.
C.Polar bears drink all kinds of liquid.                D.Polar bears eat mainly liquid food.