The popularity of Mongabay.com attracted advertisers.Small ads on the site pay for its operations.www.mongabay.com has grown and led to other sites,for example,www.kids.mongabay.com,a site for children; www.wildMadagascar.org,which is about the island that Rhett Butler called his favorite place.
To keep his website going,he travels around the world on several major trips each year.His working tools are a laptop computer,cameras and some diving equipment.He often calls on experts for information.For example,he interviewed Alison Jolly,a top expert on lemurs.He interviewed Rodney Jackson,a biologist who established the Snow Leopard Conservancy.
Stories like these have made Mongabay a favorite place on the Internet for researchers,students and teachers.In April,www.time.com named it one of the fifteen top climate and environment websites in the world.
Note:
lemur n.狐猴
【语篇解读】 本文为记叙文。巴特勒游览过的热带雨林被砍伐,他因此写了本书,但并没有发表,而是建立了与此相关的网站。
1.Rhett Butler didn't publish his book about rainforests because ________.
A.it couldn't bring him much money
B.it was not about rainforest protection
C.he didn't want to become a writer
D.he wanted to use the information to create a website
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