Crocodiles Came Back: recuperação da espécie e vida nas cidades costeiras (B2)
Half a century after hunting was banned, saltwater crocodiles have returned to rivers where nobody alive remembers seeing one. Wildlife officers describe the recovery as a textbook success and, in the same breath, as their most difficult daily problem. The animals are protected, long-lived and increasingly numerous, while the towns along the coast have grown as well. Officers now spend much of the wet season trapping crocodiles near boat ramps and relocating them, a procedure that works less often than the public assumes; large males frequently swim back. Proposals for a limited cull surface after every serious incident and divide the community precisely in half. What almost everyone accepts is that warning signs are no longer enough. Coexistence, one officer says, is not a feeling. It is a set of habits people have to relearn.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
A fala de um agente, "Coexistence, one officer says, is not a feeling. It is a set of habits people have to relearn", indica que
- A) conviver com os crocodilos exige mudanças concretas no comportamento cotidiano das pessoas.
- B) a população deve confiar sobretudo nas placas de advertência instaladas às margens.
- C) os agentes já consideram o abate limitado a única solução viável para o problema.
- D) a recuperação da espécie fracassou nas áreas mais próximas das cidades costeiras.
- E) a relocação dos animais capturados resolve a maior parte dos incidentes registrados.