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Whole peoples depend on them.
所有人類都要依賴它們。
Yet, they were reduced by half during the 20th century.
然而 近半個世紀它們已經減少了。
One of the reasons for the ongoing disaster is these shrimp farms installed on the mangroves' rich waters.
這種災難的原因之一就是在營養豐富的紅樹林水域建立這些養蝦場。
Ventilators aerate pools full of antibiotics to prevent the asphyxiation of the shrimps, not that of the mangroves.
充氧機替代了紅樹林。向這些含有抗生素的池中充氣防止蝦子窒息。
Since the 1960s, deforestation has constantly gathered pace.
自1960年代始 森林砍伐越來越快。
Every year, 13 million hectares of tropical forest an area the size of Illinois-disappear in smoke and as lumber.
每年有1300萬公頃的熱帶森林。面積等于伊利諾斯州消失在煙霧中或是成為木材。
The world's largest rain forest, the Amazon,has already been reduced by 20%.
阿馬遜是世上最大的熱帶雨林其面積已縮小20%。
The forest gives way to cattle ranches or soybean farms.
森林讓路給牛場和大豆田。
Ninety-five percent of these soybeans are used to feed livestock and poultry in Europe and Asia.
95％的大豆。用來喂飼歐亞兩洲的禽畜。
And so, a forest is turned into meat.
就這樣森林變成了肉食。
When they burn, forests and their soils release huge quantities of carbon,accounting for 20% of the greenhouse gases emitted across the globe.
當它們焚燒時 森林及它們的土壤釋放出大量的碳占全球釋放的溫室氣體的20%。
Deforestation is one of the principal causes of global warming.
森林砍伐是全球變暖的主要原因之一。
Thousands of species disappear forever.
成千的物種永遠消失了。
With them, one of the links in a long chain of evolution snaps.
因為這樣 一個長長的生物進化鏈斷開了。
The intelligence of the living matter from which they came is lost forever.
它們的生命物質信息也永遠失落了。
Barely 20 years ago, Borneo, the fourth-largest island in the world,was covered by a vast primary forest.
二十年前全球第四大島嶼婆羅洲布滿了原始森林。
At the current rate of deforestation,it will have totally disappeared within 10 years.
以目前森林砍伐的速度,十年內它將會完全消失。
Living matter bonds water, air, earth and the sun.
生物把水,土,空氣,陽光結合。
In Borneo, this bond has been broken in what was one of the Earth's greatest reservoirs of biodiversity.
婆羅洲曾是全球最大生物品種的搖籃,如今這個鏈條斷裂了。
