1. " They work with a desperate energy that is disconcerting for a while until you begin to appreciate the enormity of the problems facing them, and the speed with which those problem are escalating."
---- it tells us that when you want to do something, you will do it!!! (p. 183)
2. " In the Indian Ocean on an island called Mauritius there was a very rare bird, perhaps the rarest of all falcons, called the extinctionm but that it could possibly be saved by captive breeding."
---- it tells us the information about Indian Ocean (p.187)
3. " Looking around at the captive breeding centre in which they had raised more than forty Mauritius Kestrels for gradual reintroduction to the wild, two hundred pink pigeonss, and even a hundred Rodrigues fruit bats." (p. 187)
----- It tells us the creatures in that island
4. " The just a few years ago a team from New Zealand came to exterminate the rabbits, until comeone realised that they were exterminating a rare breed of French rabbit that didn't exist anymore in Europe and it should therefore be transferred to mainland Mauritius and preserved in some way."
----- it tells us what happened in New Zealand before
5. " There's an island near here-a very, very imprtant island as far as wildlife is concerned- caleed Round Island. There are more unique species of plants and animals on Round Island than there are on any equivalent area on earth."
----- it tells us the information about Round Island
i think that these quotes from this chapter is significant because it tells us that when you want to do something, you will do it, the information about Indian Ocean, the creatures in that island, what happened in New Zealand before, and the information about Round Island.
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