英语听力：自然百科 印尼森林境况危殆

 Indonesia’s Papuan forests are under threat according to the environmental activist¹ group Greenpeace. The group has called on the Indonesian government to institute a moratorium² on deforestation and industrial logging activities in the country.

 

Most of the forest in Papua is still intact, but we know all of the forest in Papua is under big threat, especially from the logging company and, at the moment, is the palm oil company.

 

He says that unless the government takes action to stop deforestation, the forest could be gone in ten years.

 

We’re asking, in the long term, we’re asking for zero deforestation. It means no more deforestation in Indonesia by 2015. Before 2015, we’re asking the Indonesian government to put in a table [a] moratorium on forest conversion³ of any kind of forests and peat land area in Indonesia.

 

A spokesman for the Indonesian Ministry⁴ of Forestry⁵ says the only way for the moratorium to work would be if there’s minimal⁶ impact on economic and regional development.

 

If all the stakeholders, most of the stakeholders, agreed to have the moratorium with minimum impact of economic and regional development, then let’s find a way for that. If the only solution is just moratorium without having any options, then that will be difficult.

 

Earlier this month, Greenpeace began an expedition to monitor the impact of deforestation on the last remaining intact forests in Southeast Asia. They witnessed the clearing of sago and nipah forests which are important crops for the indigenous⁷ people to make way for large-scale palm oil plantations⁸. Greenpeace says it also saw suspended logging companies operating illegally. According to Greenpeace, deforestation releases around 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions⁹. And they say Indonesia is the third largest global contributor of greenhouse gases.

1 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

2 moratorium   

n.(行动、活动的)暂停(期)，延期偿付

参考例句：

• The government has called for a moratorium on weapons testing.政府已要求暂停武器试验。
• We recommended a moratorium on two particular kinds of experiments.我们建议暂禁两种特殊的实验。

3 conversion   

n.转化，转换，转变

参考例句：

• He underwent quite a conversion.他彻底变了。
• Waste conversion is a part of the production process.废物处理是生产过程的一个组成部分。

4 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

5 forestry   

n.森林学；林业

参考例句：

• At present, the Chinese forestry is being at a significant transforming period. 当前, 我国的林业正处于一个重大的转折时期。
• Anhua is one of the key forestry counties in Hunan province. 安化县是湖南省重点林区县之一。

6 minimal   

adj.尽可能少的，最小的

参考例句：

• They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
• I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家，所以我的花费很小。

7 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

8 plantations   

n.种植园，大农场( plantation的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Soon great plantations, supported by slave labor, made some families very wealthy. 不久之后出现了依靠奴隶劳动的大庄园，使一些家庭成了富豪。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• Winterborne's contract was completed, and the plantations were deserted. 维恩特波恩的合同完成后，那片林地变得荒废了。 来自辞典例句

9 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。