广西南宁市银海区重点中学2022-2023学年高一下学期期中英语试卷试题详情
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Bergl doesn't consider himself the next Thomas Edison. He's just a man who loves animals, Africa and adventure. Yet, Bergl might have invented a tool as great as the light bulb（灯泡）—a tool that uses modern-day technology to solve an almost prehistoric problem.
The tool is called the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool （SMART）. It is designed to be waterproof（防水的）, shockproof and poacher（偷猎者） proof. Bergl worked with the Bronx Zoo and worldwide wildlife groups to develop it in 2011. Since then, it has been seen in more than 55 countries where poachers have forced the best-known but most threatened species to near extinction.
SMART works as a very simple smart phone —it lets the user record observations, like animal sightings, behavioral changes in animals and illegal activities. If a park ranger（管理员） sees something that is very important, that information gets entered, sent to the cloud and sent out to the base camp so they can take action and stop the killing.
Bergl and his workmates travel to African wildlife reserves now and then. They teach park rangers in some of the most remote countries how to use SMART. "SMART makes collection of information easier. It allows us to focus on the things that really matter, according to what the information is telling us, "said Kim Young, director of the Panthera cheetah program at Etosha National Park in Namibia. "Thanks to SMART, most of Africa's endangered species seem to be coming back. "
Bergl never plans to make money from his small but great invention. SMART is free and doesn't even have a patent（专利）.
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