INTERNSHIP REPORT ppt

Nha Trang University
General Sciences Faculty
Major English Department
INTERNSHIP REPORT
Name: Lê Thị Thanh Thùy
Class: 47 TAPD
Code: 47137071
At: Khanh Hoa Radio and Television Station
Internship Period: Feb 9
th
2009 to Mar 7
th
2009
Nha Trang, March, 2009
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PREFACE
An internship is a pre_professional work that provides students with the opportunity
to gain experience in a particular area field. It also supplements academic classes
and, in some areas, earns college credits. As students, we need to use the things we
have learned in school and put it in practice. This is also a good chance for us to get
to know our future jobs and to try our strengths.
It was my good luck to take my internship at Satellite Crew, Program Production
Centre, Khanh Hoa Radio and Television Station, a prestigious place that gave me
many advantages.
The purpose of this report is to explain what I did and learned during my internship
period. The report focuses primarily on the working environment, my job and
benefits that I get. I also enclosed with my translated materials that I had done.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I want express my great attitude to Ms. Hong and Ms. Vinh who helped me to

contact to Khanh Hoa Radio and Television Station. Their guidance has contributed
to my success in the internship.
I wish to thank those at Khanh Hoa Radio and Television Station, especially the
Program Production Centre where I had taken my internship.
I also wish to thank those working at Satellite Crew, Program Production Centre for
their assists, hospitality, and friendliness. In particular, I wish to give my special
thanks to Ms. Huong, Ms. Lan and Ms. Hanh for their instructions and counsels on
my translated texts.
Last, I wish to thank Hao, Tra, Uyen. They are my fellows who were always beside
me, gave me many good advises and encouragements during that time so that I
could overcome all the obstacles and finished my internship.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Khanh Hoa Radio and Television Station……………………………5
1. General information
2. Structure
3. Activities
4. Achievements
Chapter 2: Program Production Centre………………………………………… 7
1. Structure
2. Strengths and Challenge

Chapter 3: My job description……………………………………………………9
1. International News
2. Nature and Science
Chapter 4: Internship Summary………………………………………………….11
1. Good practice
2. Short comings
3. Future orientation
Chapter 5: Evaluations……………………………………………………………13

1. Self-evaluation
2. Supervisor’s evaluation
APPENDIX
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Chapter 1:
KHANH HOA RADIO AND TELEVISION STATION
1. General information:
Address: 70 Tran Phu Street, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province
Proprietor: The People Committee of Khanh Hoa Province
Established: January 1
st
, 1995
Director: Ho Hong Son
Deputy Director: Nguyen Huu Sau
2. Structure:
Including 2 blocs:
a. Administrative Bloc:
-Director Board
-Official Organizing Chamber
-Financial Plan Office
b. Content Bloc:
-Literature and Arts Office
-Current Events Office
-Program Production Centre
-Editorial Secretary Office
-Technique Office
-Advertisement and Service Office
3. Activities:
-Making programs and broadcast them on TV and radio in Khanh Hoa province.
-Organizing art and cultural activities for local people in the community.

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-Organizing some of the national and international programs.
4. Achievements:
Khanh Hoa Radio and Television Station has maintained and increased the
broadcasting time of local programs. Recently, it continues improving programs’
quality, form and content. Besides, they pay attention to modernize equipments that
contributes to enhance the rate of working progress.
Many of its programs have reflected most of controlversially hot issues in our
society. At the same time, they do not forget to propagandize the government’s
policies as well as the good way of living for the local residents. They also take
care of the local people’s life by doing many charitable programs to help the poor to
have a better life.
In the year of 2003, Khanh Hoa Radio and Television Station was recognized as the
leading one among the Radio and Television Stations in Coastal Middle of Viet
Nam.
It was the host of 2001’s and 2008’s National Television Festivals which were
considered two of the most successful ones.
The 2009 International Television Film Fair was organized here. It attracted public
cares and many experts in this field. This was a chance for contact and cooperation
between Television Stations and units specializing in film supply.
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Chapter 2:
PROGRAM PRODUCTION CENTRE
Director: Vo Quoc Thanh
Deputy Director: Tran Chan Uy
Deputy Director: Nguyen Chi Hoai
1. Structure:
5 crews:
1.1. Editorial Crew:
Its commander is Mr. Tran Chan Uy. This crew undertakes news report and other

programs. Their jobs are to edit, rectify and censor programs done by other
departments.
1.2. Displaying Crew:
Nguyen Minh Duc is the commander. People who work here often go outside to
film.
1.3. Technique Crew:
The commander is Nguyen Hai Dang.
1.4. Accounting Crew:
Its commander is Dang Thi My Hong.
1.5. Satellite Crew:
It is commanded by Thi Thi Ngoc Phuong. I had taken my internship here. Being a
section of Program Production Centre, its duty is to exploit programs including:
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International News, Animal Planet, National Geographic, sports, cartoons, circus,
Nature and Science. They exploit these programs from International Satellite.
People who work here are all female translators. They record programs on Satellite
then watch and translate them from English, French, Chinese, and Russian into
Vietnamese.
Each translator has their own working desk with a television, a video player and a
head phones. Some translators who do the International News have computers
connected with the Internet.
In this section, it is normal to ask the other more experienced colleagues for help.
They often help each other to finish their works. This shows their solidarity in
working.
2. Strengths and challenge:
2.1 Strengths:
It has a personnel staff with capacity, experience, enthusiasm and passion in their
jobs. They are all hard working and many of them even go to work on their days of
rest. People working here often take some training courses so that they can update
the knowledge in their fields that ensures effectiveness in working. The station

always makes favorable conditions and provides sufficient modern equipments for
workers in the section.
2.2 Challenge:
The number of programs that they can exploit from the international satellite is
limited because of program copyrights. The expense of buying these programs is so
high and they cannot afford. It will be more difficult for them in the future when the
number of programs having copyrights is increasing.
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Chapter 3:
MY JOB DESCRIPTION
When I took the internship there, I did two kinds of programs:
1. International News:
a. How an International News program is made :
Each program includes from nine to ten pieces of news. International News
programs are broadcasted two times a day. One is at 10.50 am and another is at
8 pm. The translators must go to the office early in the morning then watch and
record news on ABC, BBC or CNN channels. Next, they will choose the typical
news among a day and translate them into Vietnamese. After that, the
translators will type then print the news out.
The translated news will go to the Editorial Crew. People working in this crew
will edit the news. Then Mr. Tran Chan Uy, the Deputy Director of the Program
Production Centre and the commander of this crew, signs his name on the
translated text. Mr. Ho Hong Son also gives his signature on it. Last, the
translated text and the recorded video will go to the Technique Crew. The
program is completed here before it is broadcasted on TV.
b. My work :
I had worked as a translator though the news video is already recorded. I had
done four pieces of news: three from BBC channel and one from ABC channel.
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The news in the video were rather long, I didn’t have to translate all the

information but just the important ones so that viewers could catch the main
things that we want to convey through the news.
٭My problem:
The speakers often delivered the news very fast; I sometimes even didn’t
understand what they said. At that time, I needed to watch it again and again.
Because they spoke so fast so I was not sure that the information that I got was
true or not.
I had used the Internet to solve this kind of problem. I can check the accuracy of
the information I heard by searching on the Internet.
2. Nature and Science:
I had done a program named “Wolf attacks” on Nature and Science. Doing this
program took most of my time. Every day, I went to the office, put on my
headphones, listened and wrote down every word that I heard until I got all. Then I
translated it.
When doing this kind of program, the translators’ duties are just like when they do
the International News. The biggest difference here is that they have to listen and
translate exactly every word, every sentence being said in the video. It is very
difficult and it is also my problem.
I had to listen sentence by sentence and listened for many times. There were several
new words that I didn’t know. So I listened to them very carefully then I looked up
in the dictionary to find out the new words. However, there were still some words
that even I had listened for many times and I had looked up in the dictionary, I
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couldn’t find them. The last way I could do was to ask for my supervisor’s help.
She will listen and help me find these words. She was more experienced and was
familiar with these words; it would be easy for her to get it.
Chapter 4:
INTERNSHIP SUMMARY
1. Good practice:
I have obtained many benefits from my internship at Khanh Hoa Radio and

Television Station. This was a good opportunity for me to gain experience in
translation field. I had worked as a real translator and not just a student. I acquired
many new skills and developed many already existing skills including translating
skill, listening skill, and communicating skill. Of these skills, the most worth-saying
is listening one. I had listened most of my time and I could listen as much as I can.
So that I had improved my listening ability a lot. Besides, working in such full of
updated news environment also helped me improve my knowledge. I could know
most of the current events happened around the world during that time. In addition,
it was a chance for me to get used to the working environment that I might be in the
future. I could know how the work of a translator in such position is.
2. Short comings:
One thing that I feel regret is that the internship period was rather short so I could
not try in other programs such as cartoons, sports, national geographic, circus which
the other translators in this section could do.
One disadvantage that I had to face was that I could not do my job without a video
player. However, each translator have their own one, there was only one spare video
player which the translator being on pass left for us. We had four people who took
the internship at the same time there. So we had to share it and took advantage of
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the other translator days of rest to do our jobs. That was why the amount of
programs I did was not much.
3. Future orientation:
In future, I will continue maintaining the improvement of the skills that I had got
during my internship period. The main thing I should do is to continue to practice
translating everyday. I will also practice listening through the tape or by watching
cable TV. One thing that I should not forget is to read books and search information
on the Internet to update information and to improve my knowledge as well.
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Chapter 5:
EVALUATION

1. Self-evaluation:
During my internship period, I had worked very hard; I even went to the office on
the weekend. I had taken many efforts to do my job and to solve problems
generating unexpectedly. I also took much time to translate the program “Wolf
attacks” carefully. Lastly, I feel satisfied with what I had done.
2. Supervisor’s evaluation:
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APPENDIX
I enclosed with the translated materials that I had done including “Wolf attacks”
(Nature and Science Program) and four pieces of news in International News
Program.
1. International News:
1.1 Máy bay rơi xuống sông Hudson
Rạng sáng hôm qua theo giờ Hà Nội, máy bay Airbus A320 đã cất cánh từ sân bay
La Guardina, bang New York đến Charlotte, bang Bắc Carolina, Mỹ. Chỉ sau khi
cất cánh một phút, chiếc máy bay này đã “đáp” xuống sông Hudson. Nguyên nhân
ban đầu được cho biết là do máy bay đã đâm phải một đàn ngỗng. Thông thường
máy bay có thể tiếp tục hoạt động sau khi va chạm với chim nặng tối đa hai
kilogram nhưng vì những chú ngỗng trên có trọng lượng quá lớn đã gây ra vụ tai
nạn. Ngay sau khi máy bay rơi, những tàu chở khách và cảnh sát đã kịp thời tiếp
ứng. Nhiều hành khách mặc áo cứu sinh chen chúc trên hai cánh máy bay với nước
ngập đến mắc cá chân và thời tiết lạnh cóng để chờ giải cứu. Thật may mắn khi
toàn bộ 155 hành khách cùng phi hành đoàn đều được an toàn, trong đó chỉ có một
số người bị thương nhẹ.
1.2 Kho lương thực Liên Hợp Quốc bên trong dải Gaza chìm trong biển lửa
Khu liên hợp chính của Liên Hiệp Quốc bên trong Dải Gaza chìm trong biển lửa sau
đợt tấn công đạn pháo của Israel vào ngày hôm qua. Đây là trung tâm cứu trợ nhân
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đạo của Liên Hiệp Quốc, chuyên phân phát thực phẩm cho khoảng một triệu người
tị nạn Palestine tại Dải Gaza. Lính cứu hoả đã nổ lực dập lửa nhằm cứu vớt phần

nào lương thực trong kho. Bên cạnh đó, Liên Hiệp Quốc cũng đã liên hệ với quân
đội Israel yêu cầu ngừng bắn để trấn áp ngọn lửa nhưng không thành công. Ngọn
lửa đã nuốt chửng hàng tấn lương thực và hang cứu trợ. Tuy vậy, xe tăng của Israel
vẫn đang tiếp tục tiến sâu hơn vào Dải Gaza. Cuộc chiến Israel phát động tại khu
vực này kéo dài hơn nửa tháng nay và đã làm thiệt mạng hơn 1000 người. Trước
tình hình đó, tổng thư kí Liên Hiệp Quốc ông Ban Ki-Moon đã bày tỏ phẫn nộ và
lên án vụ tấn công này. Ông Ban Ki-Moon cho hay, phía Israel nói rằng đây là sai
lầm nghiêm trọng của họ.
1.3 Hillary Clinton được phê chuẩn làm ngoại trưởng Mỹ
Hôm qua, Uỷ Ban Đối Ngoại Thượng Viện Mỹ đã phê chuẩn bà Hillary Clinton, đệ
nhất phu nhân cựu tổng thống Mỹ ông Bill Clinton làm ngoại trưởng mới dưới thời
tổng thống mới đắc cử Barack Obama. Quyết định này vượt lên trở ngại về những
rắc rối lien quan đến hoạt động từ thiện của ông Clinton. Với số phiếu ủng hộ áp
đảo 16/1 cho thấy bà Hillary nhận được nhiều ủng hộ từ các thành viên trong Uỷ
Ban Đối Ngoại Thượng Viện. Quyết định bổ nhiệm chính thức sẽ được ông Obama
tuyên bố trong lễ nhận chức vào ngày 20 tháng 1 sắp tới.
1.4 Phát hiện khí mêtan trên sao Hoả
Liệu sự sống có tồn tại trên sao Hỏa? Đây là một vấn đề gây nhiều tranh cải được
đặt ra cho các nhà khoa học. Đáp án cho câu hỏi trên gần như sáng tỏ khi một số
lượng lớn khí Metan được phát hiện ở hành tinh đỏ này. Có hai giả thiết được đặt ra
cho việc xuất hiện khí trên. Thứ nhất về địa hoá học, đây la phản ứng đơn giản giữa
các chất khoáng trong lòng núi lửa tác dụng với nước và giải phóng ra khí Metan.
Giả thiết thứ hai được quan tâm nhiều hơn thuộc về sinh học, lien quan đến các vi
khuẩn sống. Khí Metan có thể là chất thải hoặc là thực phẩm của các sinh vật này.
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Giáo sư Michio Kaku, đại học New York cho biết, ngày nay có lẽ sự sống đang tồn
tại dưới lòng đất ở sao Hỏa. Trên Trái Đất, khí Metan là một trong những chất khí
gây nên hiệu ứng nhà kính và dẫn đến hiện tượng nóng lên toàn cầu. Khí này có thể
làm cho sao Hỏa trở thành một hành tinh nhiệt đới như ba tỷ năm trước đây.
2. Nature and Science:

WOLF ATTACKS
The attack took place early in 2008 in a county of Balikun, east of TianShan
Mountain in Xinjiang. Visitors to herdsman’s house where the attack had occurred
were shocked by what they saw, the body of calculus sheep lying around killed by
wolves.
On January 15
th
, 2008 we came to the place where the wolves attack had occurred.
Balikun County is located east of the TianShan Mountain range where it’s very cold
in winter. January is the coldest time on the year.
The next day, Nature and Science drove to Kuisu Town, 30 km away from the
county seat. It snowed the whole way but we eventually arrived then found
TianRongHong, the correspondent who reported the wolf attack.
TianRongHong; Public Secretary, Kuisu Town, Balikun County:
“After learning a little more about what had happened, we set out with Mr.Li, the
town head, and Mr.Ha, another town head in charge of animal husbandry. Around 9
o’clock, we arrived at the herdsman’s home. I was shocked by the sight that greeted
me when I arrived. There were so many sheep that had been killed by wolves. I
had never seen a real wolf before, although I had certainly heard about them.”
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As our request, Tian took us to the settlement of the herdsman in question. The
place is over 20 km from the town seat. The heavy snow and the strong wind so it
took us more than an hour to reach the village.
“Let’s have a look”, TianRongHong.
The home of HuSaYin, the herdsman who had been attacked by the wolves looked
no difference than any other farm house, but upon entering the house, it would be
easy to see that this was a home of a Kazak. Recalling the horrible night, it would
be easy to see that HuSaYin still felt very much afraid.
HuSaYin:”I saw 1 or 2 injured sheep could hardly stand up. They were bleeding
from various wound and it seemed quite clear that they were victims of a wolf

attack.”
We tried to understand HuSaYin accented Chinese. What seemed clear though was
that on November 10
th
, the herdsman drove the herds out and by midnight they
decided to take a rest. Wolves are nocturnal animals. They could the herdsman
completely by surprise.
Liugou village is not the first place where wolves had attacked. HuSaYin’s herds
were attacked by wolves at the wintry pasture on North Mount which is nearly 30
km away from the village. Not wound after the last wolf attack, HuSaYin moved
down hill into the village.
“HuSaYin, where do you stay for winter?”
“Just in that mountain. Now there are wolves there and we dare not stay any longer.
We moved away out of fear of them.”
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It’s hard to calculate how many wolves there are in the mountains. Some say there
are about a dozen and some say over 20. Now the herdsmen often run into wolves
in packs of 3 or 4. They typically attack the livestock.
HaYiDo, a deputy head of Kuisu Town Government in charge of animal husbandry
showed us a report on wolves attacks which indicated that in the months of
November and December 2007 alone, livestock get the wintry pastures on the North
Mount were attacked about a dozen times with 183 sheep being killed. According
to incomplete statistics, during winter, nearly 1,000 domestic animals, large and
small, were killed by the wolves. However, Balikun County is not the only place
affected by wolves’ attacks.
YuanGuoYing, President, Xinjiang Ecological Association:
“There was an investigation done which shows that just in Wensu County; nearly
10,000 domestic animals have been killed by wolves.”
It’s so surprising that just in 1 county; almost 10,000 live stocks had been killed by
wolve in the winter. The frequent wolf attacks around Xinjiang indicate that there

are quite a few wolves packs active in Xinjiang right now.
From interviews, we also got to know a shocking fact: only 7 wolves took part in
the attacks reported in Balikun County but they killed 97 sheep from which on can
get a rough idea of how efficient they are. What is more appalling in such a killing
spree is not the most serious.
YuanGuoYing:”There are some statistics. Recently, a pack of wolves rushed into a
herd and killed some 20 or 30 sheep. This is just normal. In 1 attack, 90 were
killed, and in another, 190 killed.”
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According to folklore, wolves enjoy drinking blood and foreign legends, vampires
are even depicted of having a wolf head. But this has not been scientifically verified.
JiangRong, the author of Wolf Token believes that wolves are very intelligent
animals. They hunt and kill more frequently in winter so to save food, for they
know that food doesn’t go bad in the cold weather. This theory has yet though to be
proven.
YuanGuoYing:” They are unlike snow leopards or grizzly bears, which attack a
herd but are content killing just 1 or 2 sheep and pulling them away.”
Some other people even believe that because human beings has been continued with
the extending pastures to raise more sheep that intruding on the habitats of the
wolves. They are acting out of revenge.
In the months of December and January, wolves’re going to heat. They flock
together to form large groups. Only a few dominant male and female wolves can
mate freely while most of the others don’t have the right to reproduce. Moreover,
the snow seals the mountain passim and food is scarce so the livestocks on the
pastures becom a natural choice for the wolves.
YuanGuoYing:” It’s just their nature. Very strange indeed. They certainly pose a
serious threat to animal husbandry.”
No matter what the reasons, in the vast western wilderness, this winter has
witnessed a more cruel disaster than simple extreme weather.
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During mid January, people are busy celebrating the ice and snow festival in
Balikun County. The whole county seat becomes quiet and serene. Even in
Xinjiang, it has been a long time since people last heard about wolves.
PengXingLi, Former Head, Balikun Administrative Office of Cultural Relics:
“Since the 1960’s, we have been hearing less and less about wolf attacks.”
Why have the wolves extinct for nearly a half century suddenly reappeared in
groups?
MengYuQiang, Director, Hami Region Forestry Bureau:
“I think the 1
st
reason is that the society now has a stronger desire to promote the
protection of wild animals. Everyone is paying attention to it. The second reason is
that we are stepping up protective measures for such animals. Our forestry police
and laws enforcement teams have been severely cracking down on poaching.”
As the predator at the upper end of the food chain, the wolves had no natural enemy
in China Wild West except the grizzly bears and the snow leopards both have
smaller in number now. In Xinjiang, there is even special some snow leopards
we’ve never seen them.
YuanGuoYing:” Since the 1980’s, there has been a state policy of confiscating
personal weapons. The work has been so thorough that all shotguns and small-
caliber rifles have virtually disappeared.”
At the Balikun Public Security Bureau, the policemen showed us the guns and
ammunitions the had collected over the past years.
ChenXueJun, Captain, Public Security Corps, Balikun Public Security Bureau:
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“Since we implemented various violence-control measures and banned gun-
collecting, we have been collecting heavy-caliber shotguns and this kind of
tranquilizer guns used on breeding farms; there are also obsolete signal guns like
these.”
Among the firearms and ammunitions collected by Balikun Public Security Bureau,

there’re even tranquilizer guns and signal guns.
In China Western Regions, human are the last natural enemy of the wolves. Now
with the closing place to protect the wolves, human are less effectively on armed
and the wolves have nothing to fear.
Winter is the season when food is hardest to combine. In the wiriness, hungry
wolves’re scaring around in such afraid.
The flock of sheep represents an easy target because they run so slowly and they’re
not very quick quitted so the wolves have no hesitation in longing an attack.
Early the next morning, Nature and Science drove to the scene of the attack by the
wolves. Moring light bumped its way along winding mountain road.
Our car drove this way of the mountain side and the right of the scene by noon. On
the snow, there were traces left by the wolves and body parts of the dead sheep.
“How many sheep were killed?”
“Altogether 24.”
“Were you present when the wolves attacked the sheep?”
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Tusubieke, Herdsman, Company III, Muye Village:
“Yes, I was. I just couldn’t hold on. They got in… 3 of them, from 3 directions. I
drove 1 out, but another got back in. A lot of sheep were wounded.”
“Aren’t wolves afraid of humans?”
“No, they are not. Even we were too tired to walk any longer. Ain’t nothing can be
done about that.”
Tusubieke had driven the sheep there just 1 week before. He’s never expected that
3 wolves which suddenly rushed the herd in broad day light.
The wolves hit the sheep fall on rush, within moment 24 sheep laid dead in a pool of
blood.
WangHaiYu, Commander, Company III, Muye Village, No.1 Hongxing Pasture”
“The loss is big. Almost all the dead sheep were females. Most were pregnant.”
After the wolves attack, the herdsman skinned the 24 dead sheep to reduce their
losses. Body parts of the dead sheep scattered all around. The heads of the dead

sheep were piled up, some still with their eyes wide open.
Tusubieke:” They are all female sheep with lambs. Then the loss is great. We can
do nothing about it either. We hope our government leaders can give us some
solutions, telling us what to do before a wolf attack. Now we can’t even graze
safely. You can’t stop them. They are not afraid of human beings any more.”
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At the scene, Tusubieke kept grumbling telling us what the female sheep meant to
the herdsman. One female sheep is equivalent to more than 2 since you have to
include the future baby lambs to be born the next year and the year after. There is a
proverb in the grassland, it goes something like this:” A you lives today, a herd will
run tomorrow.”
Another 5 km futher from the place of the wolf attack is the habitat of Tusubieke
and his herd. It located at a small cold consisting of a small cabin for shepherd and
a sheep pen surrounded by a low stone wall.
For the 3 months in winter, Tusubieke and his herd will stay here. Thinking of the
unfortunate experience, Tusubieke is very sad:
“Now there are too many wolves. It’s difficult to take the sheep out of graze, and
we suffer a lot from the wolf attacks. The loss has become bigger and bigger year
after year. Nowadays, the wolves are so fierce. Now, many other herdsmen are not
willing to take their sheep out to graze. We have no guns or weapons to stop the
wolves from attacking our sheep. They are just too fierce.”
Knowing the hardship of Tusubieke, the Hongxing Police station on the pasture set
out the policeman to bring them double kicks- a kind of firecracker to keep the
wolves away.
BaHaGen, Policemen, Hongxing Police Station:
“Wolf attacks are bad in our area. However, we are not allowed to kill them
because they are state-level protected animals. We now use firecracker to drive
them away; and the herdsmen have their own trandition of making dummies or set
up bonfires to protect their herds.”
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A little while later, BaHaGen got to the hillock on the other side. They light the
firecrackers to drive off the wolves. It said that wolves will stay away from the
sound of guns and the smell of gunpowder.
The wolf attack has left the herdsmen extremely busy this year. In the day, they
dare not stay away from their herds. At night, they light fire or prop up dummies
around the sheep pen to keep the wolves away.
HuSaYin:” In the night, we stay up and in the day, we take the sheep out to graze.
For the whole day, we do nothing but look after the sheep.”
The herdsmen don’t have any weapons any more and the wolves are protected by
laws. In the struggle with the wolves, the herdsmen’re although very cautious in
every aspect arranged the passive position.
Tiekai, Head, Muye Village, Kuisu Town:
“The wolves have eaten our sheep. That’s it. But if we eat the wolves, it’s against
the law. What should we do?”
According to Hasatihan, a Kazak writer from Balikun County, in the past, the
herdsmen would take a nap on the grassland when sleepy. When they woke up,
none of their sheep would be missing.”
MaKuan, Former Party Secretary, Saerqiaoke Township, Balikun County:
“At the founding of the People’s Community, we have special Wolf Hunting
Squads. There were 7 production corps in the Township, and each corps had one
Wolf Hunting Squad.”
But without wolves, all kinds of other problems were arriving. One after another.
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YuanGuoYing:” The wolf is a very important animal in the ecological system. As
far as we know, it has some merit in controlling the number of herbivorous
animals.”
Without wolves, Mongolian gazelles, marmots and rats will reproduce very quickly.
They will eat up the grass and the grassland will become desert.
Hasatihan, Kasak writer:” If wolves go extinct, other animals, especially sheep, will
get diseases. There’ll be more mentally retarded sheep as well. With wolves,

domestic animals will not catch so many diseases.”
YuanGuoYing:” Some old herdsmen even say that without wolves chasing the
sheep, their meat (mutton) will not be as good.”
Wolves can naturally improve the ecological system on the grasslands; the animals
which are full preys to wolves are usually those old, weak, psyco-disabled. This is
conducive to the prevention of genetic degeneration and weakening among animal
groups. But for most herdsmen, they can’t see this logic.
Spring comes again and the herdsmen are going search of the wolves’ lairs. They
want to keep their numbers down by stealing the cubs. It’s clearly not an ideal
solution but there would appear to be no easy way for human beings and wolves to
live together.
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