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New Guinea lies in a warm tropical belt that girdles our planet around the equator.
新幾內亞島地處熱帶，赤道從島中穿過。
With abundant rainfall and 12 hours of daylight 365 days a year, it's here that rainforests flourish.
大量的降雨和每天12小時的日照，一年365天天天如此，造就了這里茂密的雨林。
Surprisingly, only 2% of the sunlight filters down to the forest floor.
只有百分之二的陽光能夠照射到雨林的地表上。
Down here, seedlings struggle to grow. But the gloom is not eternal.
在這里，秧苗奮力向上生長。只為擺脫黑暗束縛。
The death of a forest giant is always saddening.
雨林中樹木的死亡雖然令人傷感。
But it has to happen if the forest is to remain healthy.
但若保持雨林的健康，這種事情必須要發生。
The sudden blaze of sunlight will bring life to the forest floor.
太陽一瞬間的光輝也能給森林地表帶來生命。
A single hectare of rainforest may contain as many as 250 species of tree.
一公頃雨林就可以容納250種不同的樹木。
That's nearly 10 times the number that grow in Britain.
這一數字幾乎是在英國的10倍。
And the thirst for light triggers a race for a place in the sun.
對陽光的渴望引發了這場生長競賽。
