SHIPPING IN BRITAIN.

In England no town is more than 170 kilometres from the sea. So it's no suprise that Britain has a very jimportant history of ships and the sea.
the british Navy was the biggest navy in the world at one time.
In Liverpool there's a great museum of maritime history. I)t's got serveral ships in the docks outside. Inside it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.
Ships like this one - the Cutty Sark at Greenwich in London - brought tea from India to Britain.
Between 1830 and 1930 more than nine million people from all over Europe left from the port of Liverpool to start a new life in America or Australia.
The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 abd iver 1,500 people drowned.
One of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard, It's got the world's biggest cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, whic crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to Nwq York. The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for movin goods.
Here at the Southampton Container Terminal they unload more than one and a half milion containers each year.

ANIMALS!!

People love animals. But some of the world's animals are in danger of extinction. There are several reasons for this. But the most serious threat to animals is from man.
Another big problem is the destruction of the rainforests. This is removing the habitat of many animals, like these gorillas, birds and plants. The number of animals in some species is now very small and they may not exist at all for much longer.
The Worldwide Fund for Nature is an international organization. It started in Britain in 1961 and has now got a global network in 90 countries. It looks at all aspects of conservation including animals, plants, forestry and control of pollution.
There are a number of projects in Britain which deal with endangered species. Here at Port Lympne Animal Park there are elephants, lions, African hunting dogs and many others.
In this safe environment animals can bredd - produce babies - and so increase the numbers. The animals are then put back into their natural wild habitat.
Animals born in Britain are now back in the Congo and GAbon in Africa. They are surviving and adapting successfully to conditions there.