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In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal,
橫跨北方森林的薩克其萬省，
home to some of our most famous rivers,
擁有一些著名湖泊，
an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about,
形成令人嘆為觀止的河流及湖泊網(wǎng)絡(luò)，這是每位學(xué)齡兒童都讀過的知識，
the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie,
和平河、阿薩帕斯卡爾河，丘吉爾河、馬更些河，
and these networks were the historical routes for the voyageur and the coureur des bois,
這些網(wǎng)絡(luò)是具有歷史意義的路線，對旅客和獵人來說，
the first non-Aboriginal explorers of northern Canada that, taking from the First Nations people,
北加拿大第一位非原住民探險者仿效原住民的做法，
used canoes and paddled to explore for a trade route, a Northwest Passage for the fur trade.
使用獨木舟探索貿(mào)易路線，即進(jìn)行毛皮交易的西北航道。
In the North, the boreal is bordered by the tundra,
北方是被凍土帶包圍的北方森林，
and just below that, in Yukon,
位于下方的育空省，
we have this incredible valley, the Tombstone Valley.
擁有這座壯觀的峽谷，墓碑谷。
And the Tombstone Valley is home to the Porcupine caribou herd.
墓碑谷是豪豬馴鹿的家園。
Now you've probably heard about the Porcupine caribou herd in the context of its breeding ground in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
你或許聽說過，豪豬馴鹿的繁殖地位于北極國家野生動物保護(hù)區(qū).
Well, the wintering ground is also critical and it also is not protected,
事實上這片渡冬地亦十分重要卻未受到保護(hù),
and is potentially, could be potentially, exploited for gas and mineral rights.
它面臨一個潛在危機(jī),即天然氣和礦物的開采。
The western border of the boreal in British Columbia is marked by the Coast Mountains,
位于卑詩省的北方森林西部邊界即海岸山脈,
and on the other side of those mountains is the greatest remaining temperate rainforest in the world,
這座山脈的另一側(cè)是世上現(xiàn)存最大的溫帶雨林,
the Great Bear Rainforest,
大熊雨林,
and we'll discuss that in a few minutes in a bit more detail.
我們稍后會做詳細(xì)介紹.
All across the boreal, it's home for a huge incredible range of indigenous peoples,
縱觀整個北方森林，它是眾多原住民族群薈萃之地,
and a rich and varied culture.
擁有豐富多樣的文化.
And I think that one of the reasons why so many of these groups have retained a link to the past,
我認(rèn)為大多族群依然保有其固有文化的原因之一,
know their native languages,
例如母語,
the songs, the dances, the traditions,
歌曲、舞蹈、傳統(tǒng),
I think part of that reason is because of the remoteness,
我認(rèn)為部分原因在于它地處偏遠(yuǎn),
the span and the wilderness of this almost 95 percent intact ecosystem.
幅員廣大且依舊保持原始面貌在這片將近95%生態(tài)系統(tǒng) 尚未遭受破壞的土地當(dāng)中.
