印尼自然保护科学处于危险中(下)

A leaked letter from the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry instructs the country’s national parks not to work with Meijaard or approve his research requests, saying his writings could “discredit the government.”

印尼环境与林业部一封泄露的信件指示，不允许印尼国家公园与迈贾拉德合作，不允许批准迈贾拉德的研究请求，并称他的文章可能会“抹黑政府”。

And it’s really made it much more difficult to collaborate with foreign and Indonesian scientists working on conservation issues in Indonesia.

这使得外国科学家与印尼科学家合作研究印尼的环境保护问题变得更加困难

We reached out to the Indonesian government but have not, at time of publication, received a response.

我们联系了印尼政府，但截至发稿时尚未得到回复。

The scientists’ paper in Current Biology points out that Indonesia is far from the only country suppressing scientific work.

这些科学家在《当代生物学》上发表的信件指出，除了印尼，还有相当多的国家压制科学工作。

They cite examples from Turkey, Sweden, the U.S. and Australia, too.

他们还列举了土耳其、瑞典、美国和澳大利亚等国家。

But in a nation such as Indonesia, with so much biodiversity on the brink, the stakes for endangered species are especially high.

但在印度尼西亚这样一个生物多样性濒临灭绝的国家，保护濒危物种的风险尤其高。

If everyone says that orangutan populations are growing, and no one is there to question that, then orangutan populations “are” growing.

如果每个人都说猩猩的数量在增长，没有人质疑这一点，那么猩猩的数量就“在”增长。

And that perception becomes reality, he says.

他说，这种看法变成了现实。

Without independent science, the government and other groups can completely change the narrative and generate fake realities about what is happening.

缺乏独立的科学，政府和其他团体可以完全改变说法，制造所发生之事的虚假现实。

And in a world where fake realities have been used to discredit lifesaving vaccines or to undermine free and fair elections, it’s easy to imagine how “fake realities” about the state of Indonesia’s forests could have very real repercussions for critically endangered species.

在这个利用虚假现实诋毁拯救生命的疫苗，利用虚假现实破坏自由公正选举的世界上，很容易想象，关于印尼森林状况的“虚假现实”会对极度濒危物种产生多么真实的影响。

Science, Quickly is produced by Jeff DelViscio, Tulika Bose, Kelso Harper and Carin Leong. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.

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想要深入了解科学新闻和专题节目，请点击ScientificAmerican.com。

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感谢收听《科学快播》，我是克里斯托弗·因塔利亚塔。