Indonesia Strikes Down Plans for Development in Rainforest(翻译)

Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem is one of the few places where tigers,orangutans, elephants and rhinoceros all live in the wild.
印度尼西亚的洛塞生态系统是世界上少有的几个地方之一——这里的老虎、红毛猩猩、大象和犀牛都是在自然环境下生活的。

But there has been talk of possible development of the area for geothermal energy -- heat that comes from the Earth.
但是这里出现了关于开发这一地区地热能源的讨论——地热能源就是从地底出来的热能。

Wildlife activists are worried about the plan.
野生动物活动家对这一计划表示了担忧。

Rudi Putra is an adviser at the Leuser Conservation Forum.He asked, “Why do they want to build it inside Aceh’s best remaining forest?”He believes that if the plan is approved, the area “will lose many, many animals.”
鲁迪·普特拉是洛塞保护论坛的顾问。他问道，“他们为什么想要在亚齐省现存最好的森林里面开发呢？”他认为，如果计划通过了，这片区域的动物“会少很多很多”。

The Leuser ecosystem is in Aceh, Indonesia’s westernmost province.Last month, the provincial governor asked the central government to change zoning laws for 8,000 hectares of the ecosystem to permit geothermal exploration.
洛塞生态系统位于印度尼西亚最西边的省份——亚齐省内。上个月，该省省长向中央政府提请改变这一生态系统内8000公顷区域的规划法，以允许开发地热能源。

Under the plan, a Turkish company would explore part of the 800,000 hectare Gunnung Leuser National Park.The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared the park a World Heritage site.
按照计划，一家土耳其公司将开发占地80万公顷的古农洛塞国家公园的一部分。联合国教科文组织宣布公园是世界遗产保护区。

The re-zoning request was structured to help Indonesian President Joko Widodo.He has promised to add 35,000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity to Indonesia’s energy grid by 2020.The plan is designed to increase renewable energy production.
这个重新规划的请求对印尼总统佐科·威多多来说是一种帮助。他承诺到2020年，印度尼西亚的能源网会增加3.5万兆瓦电量。设计这个计划也是为了增加可再生能源的产量。

But environmentalists worry that such a development would start a series of events leading to Leuser’s collapse.Once the destruction is started, they say, officials would be powerless to stop it.
但是环保主义者们担心，这样的计划会开启一系列事件，会最终导致洛塞地区生态系统的崩塌。他们说，一旦开始毁坏，官员们是无力叫停这种事情的。

Farwiza Farhan leads a group called Forest, Nature and Environment of Aceh.She says “anywhere you put roads, destruction follows.”She says timber companies and small farmers used the roads to gain entry to forests,leading to environmental destruction.
法薇扎·法汉是“亚齐省森林、自然与环境”的领导者。她说“路修到哪里，破坏就跟随到哪里”。她说伐木公司和小农场主会利用道路进入到森林中，导致环境被破坏。

“Right now it is geothermal, but what’s next? Even now they can’t protect Leuser,” she said.
“现在是地热，下一个是什么？现在他们都不能保护洛塞地区呢。”她说。

Federal laws for protecting wildlife are in place.But in recent years, illegal development and logging has been a problem.Some observers say the ecosystem is shrinking by about 5,500 hectares a year.
保护野生动物的联邦法律并不是没有。但是近年来非法开发和伐木渐成问题。一些分析人士称，生态系统每年都要缩减近5500公顷。

In Sumatra, logging and land development for farming has destroyed almost one fourth of the forests since 2000.Recently, the Indonesian environment ministry ruled on the Aceh provincial government’s plan.
在苏门答腊岛，自2000年以来，伐木和耕地开发已经毁掉了近四分之一的森林。不久前，印尼环保部就亚齐省政府的计划进行了裁决。

The environmental group Mongabay says the ministry denied the request.The group said it learned about the decision last week during a meeting of the International Union for Conservation and Natural Resources (IUCN) in Hawaii.
环保组织“孟加贝”称，环保部否决了这项申请。该组织表示，他们是上周在夏威夷召开的国际保护自然资源联盟会议期间听说的这个决定。

The minister’s director for protected areas told Mongabay that the minister received the proposal.But “the result was disagreement with the rezoning, so that’s that. [The plan] stops there,” he said.
环保部保护区主任在接受孟加贝采访时说，部长的确收到了申请。但是“结果就是否决了重新规划的申请。就是这样了。（这项计划）停在这里了。”他说。

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