How to sustainably increase students’ willingness to protect pollinators

The current loss of biodiversity requires efforts to increase awareness of pollinator conservation. An important tool is education which often uses the honeybee (Apis mellifera) as an exemplary organism to reach this goal. Any successful module needs to focus on reducing the perceived danger associated with fear, in order to support the willingness to protect them. Using a quasi-experimental design, we investigated the effectiveness of two educational approaches: one by authentically encountering living animals at a beehive, the other by using a remote online beehive. We monitored secondary school students’ (N = 354) perception of bees with respect to interest, danger and conservation as well as situational emotions (interest, well-being, boredom) during both interventions. In both cases positive effects on perception levels were observed, even when already a high willingness to protect bees existed. Using living animals in educational settings is crucial, especially when students’ situational emotions need targeting. However, we achieved similar intervention results in perception levels using a remote beehive, which therefore constitutes an excellent alternative to raise awareness of the conservation of bees as pollinators when working with living organisms is not possible.     

Red in Tooth and Claw? Images of Nature in Modern Picture Books

This article questions whether the mediated experience provided by picture books contributes toward or hinders a realistic and appropriate appreciation of the natural world. Based on an examination of 1,074 books, it argues that picture book makers typically transform and domesticate animals and their habitats in ways that provide readers with highly misleading images and impressions. The article examines a few exceptional books that give an accurate and sensitive account of the animal kingdom and the natural environment, and argues that many more are needed.     

上海两爬类药用动物资源现状与利用研究

本文介绍了上海市7种药用两栖动物、19种药用爬行动物的分布、药用价值、资源现状,并对其保护和利用进行了有益的探讨。上海市不少两爬类药用动物资源已十分稀少,应加强保护、规范管理,更合理地利用两爬类药用动物资源。     

WTO与中国实验动物福利保护制度的建设

基于环境保护和维护公共道德的考虑，WTO把与动物贸易有关的动物福利保护纳入了其规则体系。动物福利保护规则对WTO各成员的实验动物福利保护法律制度建设产生了一些影响。在对中国实验动物福利保护制度建设的必要性、建设的理论与现实基础进行全面分析的基础上，文章对建设的基本要求和基本措施进行了分析和探讨。     

英语中“水”的概念分析

与科学世界图景中的水概念不同,语言世界图景中水的概念化呈现出自己的特点。通过对以水为关键词的搭配为语料对水进行的概念分析发现,英语中将水概念化为动物、人、有固定外形的物体和无固定外形的物体。尽管其概念化呈现出无序性和非逻辑性,但反映出在英伦民族意识中对水这一概念的初始认识。     

英汉动物隐喻的认知比较分析

在人类文化历史形成过程中,动物和人的联系紧密。在英汉语言中有着极为丰富的动物词汇,其隐喻涵义也相当丰富。对一些常见动物隐喻的认知对比分析,可以发现英汉动物隐喻既有共性又有个性。这种认知比较分析有利于丰富人们对不同语言文化的理解。     

《山海经》博物英译

物名外译主要用直译的方法。《山海经》记载的物名有许多古名。当译者在翻译此类古名时应该采用音译法,同时还要加注释或写出它的学名。     

论斯蒂芬·克莱恩《红色英勇勋章》中的象征主义的运用

《红色英勇勋章》是美国著名作家斯蒂芬的代表作品。小说通过生动的描述主人公亨利·弗莱明由于对战争的奇妙幻想,渴望军旅生活,而不顾母亲的劝阻毅然参加北方军的故事,真实的再现了在残酷的战争环境下人性的本色和弱点。克莱恩在本书中多层次,多角度的运用了象征,本文旨在详细剖析小说中一系列的象征以便更全面、准确地理解和欣赏这部作品。     

拒烹、拒售、拒食野生动物——我是怎样提出“三拒”倡议的

2001年4月我在《珍爱自然:拒烹濒危动植物宣言》的倡议中提出了拒烹、拒售、拒食野生动物的“三拒”口号,并号召1000余人签名加入“三拒”行动行列。倡议的具体目标是争取在2008年有100万职业厨师签名,向北京绿色奥运献礼。因倡议活动于泰山举行,故也被称为“泰山宣言”。     

Animals in Industry

SUMMARY

The following books relate to the issues surrounding the use of animals for both food and clothing. Farmers may appreciate the increased productivity of factory farming, but the view of animals as production units and the sometimes questionable treatment of animals in some factory farms raises ethical concerns for those interested in animal welfare issues. Genetic engineering, of both plants and animals, is a controversial topic.