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Conservation Carpathia has amassed 68,000 acres of land and plans to secure a further 17,000 acres of private land over the next few years.
喀爾巴阡保護基金會已經取得6.8萬英畝的土地，并計劃在未來幾年再取得1.7萬英畝的私人土地。
But until the organization can convince the surrounding villages of the value of committing their forests to a park, logging surges on in virtually every remote valley.
但在基金會說服周遭村莊相信他們的森林納入國家公園的價值之前，幾乎每個偏遠村莊的伐木量都在激增。
Data collected between July 2019 and July 2024 identified 247,000 trees felled from forests age 130 years or more in the Fagaras.
2019年7月到2024年7月間搜集到的資料指出，弗格拉什山區共有24.7萬棵樹齡在130年以上的樹木被砍倒。
The Romanian government has been cited by the EU for failing to prevent illegal logging and remains equivocal about creating a national park.
羅馬尼亞政府一直因未能阻止濫伐而受到歐盟關切，且對設立國家公園的態度曖昧不明。
For Conservation Carpathia, everything rides on local support, which it hopes will sway the government.
對喀爾巴阡保護基金會來說，一切就指望地方的支持，他們希望這些支持會影響政府。
One who will take winning over is Ion Pirnuta, mayor of Rucar, in the core of the proposed park.
需要說服的人之一是魯克爾的鄉長伊翁·皮爾努塔，魯克爾就位于國家公園預定地的中心位置。
A timber merchant, he's angered by Conservation Carpathia's interventions and buying up logging rights.
皮爾努塔從事木材買賣，喀爾巴阡保護基金會的干預和大量買下伐木權讓他火冒三丈。
"A national park would be a great thing one day, but the economic benefits will be slow in coming," Pirnuta says, as Christoph and I sit in the conference room of his new but undersold 34-room hotel.
我和克里斯多夫坐在他新開張的、有34個房間但卻入住情況不佳的酒店的會議室里聽他說：“以后有國家公園是很好的事，可是經濟效益會來得很慢。
"We have more empty than inhabited houses. We need jobs and investment now," he says. "Our stomachs are hungry today."
我們的空屋比有人住的房子還多，我們現在就需要工作機會和投資，我們今天就在餓肚子了?！?/div>
Across Europe, similar debates about land use are raging.
在整個歐洲，類似的關于土地使用的辯論正在激烈進行。
As pastoralism declines, beleaguered cattle and sheep farmers argue the value of maintaining traditions.
隨著畜牧業衰退，陷入困境的牛羊農場主人主張維護傳統的價值。
Many survive only because of agricultural subsidies.
許多人是靠農業補貼才能度日。
In Europe, less than half the size of North America, heavily industrialized, and historically fragmented, rewilding is a more human-inclusive approach to nature restoration where vast wilderness areas typically don't exist.
在面積不到北美洲的一半、工業化程度高、歷史上四分五裂的歐洲，對于通常沒有大片荒野的地方，野化是比較能包容人類的大自然復育方式。
Even remote mountains and national parks in Europe contain people, and rewilding will always involve them.
在歐洲，就連偏遠山區和國家公園都仍有人煙，而野化總是會牽涉到這些居民。
As one of the continent's most densely populated countries, the Netherlands has been at the forefront of the rewilding movement, generating space for nature in small, unexpected places and restoring floodplains for water management and wetlands habitat.
荷蘭是歐洲大陸人口最稠密的國家之一，一直走在野化運動的第一線，在意想不到的小地方替大自然創造空間，并且為了管理水資源和維持濕地供生物棲息而恢復洪泛平原。
Influential Dutch ecologist Frans Vera helped frame free-roaming animals as the creators of habitats.
在深具影響力的荷蘭生態學家法蘭斯·維拉的倡議下，自由放養的動物被塑造成棲地的創造者。
He argues that primeval Europe would have been sustained by herds of large herbivores such as aurochs, bison, water buffalo, wild boars, and elk.
他主張，原始歐洲是由原牛、野牛、水牛、野豬、麋鹿等大型草食動物維持的。
But as humans settled and cultivated the area, wild animals were relegated to the remotest areas or hunted to extinction.
但隨著人類定居和耕種，野生動物被驅趕到最偏遠的地區或被獵殺，從而滅絕。
Bringing them back can help restore land that could otherwise take thousands of years to become a fully functioning ecosystem again.
它們的回歸可以協助土地復原，否則這些土地可能要在幾千年后才會再度成為功能完整的生態系統。
Where the original species are no longer available, their domesticated descendants, or novel replacements, can be introduced as proxies.
如果沒有原始物種可引進，可以改用馴化的后代或以新種替代。
Around 2005 in Kraansvlak, an 800-acre reserve next to the Dutch casino town of Zandvoort, a sudden die-off of rabbits had allowed trees and shrubs to colonize a sensitive dune ecosystem owned by a water company concerned about not only the loss of habitat but also the impact of trees on water reserves.
2005年左右，在荷蘭賭場小鎮贊德福特旁占地300公頃的克蘭斯夫拉克保護區，由于兔子突然大量死亡，樹木和灌木開始進占脆弱的沙丘生態系統，負責管理的水資源公司不只擔心棲息地喪失問題，還有樹木對儲水量的影響。
Building on an idea he'd heard about at a conference, the company ecologist proposed importing bison -- "chainsaws on legs" -- as landscape engineers.
水資源公司的生態學家根據他在某次會議上聽到的構想，提議引進野牛，由這些“行走的鏈鋸”擔任地貌工程師。
The result was an ecosystem far richer than under the previous regime of grazing rabbits.
結果，生態系統變得比先前兔子主宰時還更加豐富多樣。
In Portugal's Coa Valley, "tauros" -- selectively bred in the Netherlands from ancient breeds of cattle to a genetic approximation of the aurochs -- have been introduced to help restore the soils of fire-prone rocky heathlands and oak forests, reducing dry vegetation and encouraging the germination of native plants.
葡萄牙的科亞河谷已經引進“葡萄牙野?！保ㄟ@是荷蘭從古代牛品種選拔育種出來的，與原牛的基因相近），協助在容易發生火災的多巖石楠地和櫟樹林復育土壤，減少干燥植被并促進原生植物發芽。
These are two of hundreds of rewilding projects that show how allowing natural processes the freedom to flourish results in astonishing outcomes for biodiversity.
數百個野化計劃中的這兩個例子都顯示，讓自然過程自行蓬勃發展，會為生物多樣性帶來驚人的成果。
