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第六天 The Amazon
The world's rainforest cover less than ten percent of the earth's surface, but contain over forty percent of all plant and animal species. The biggest rainforest is in South America. It's called the Amazon. The Amazon is by far the largest remaining rainforest area left on our planet. It's about six to seven million square kilometers. It's about two-thirds the size of the United States including Alaska. It's enormous. Sixty percent of it is in Brazil, but the rainforest also extends into Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana and Surinam. And amazingly each year the Amazon provides twenty percent of the world's fresh water. Here you can find at least sixty to seventy thousand plant species and at least three thousand species of fresh water fish. And more monkeys than you can find anywhere else on earth. In Brazil alone, nine new species of monkeys have been identified over the last year. But many of those species, known and unknown, are destroyed every day. Constant logging, mining and cattle ranching are stripping the jungles clean. "We've already lost well over fifty percent of the rainforest that existed at the turn of the last century. And if current trends continue we stand to lose a very large percentage of the life forms that share the planet with us." Scientists like Dr.Mittermeier and Conservation International are trying to make a difference.
亚马逊雨林
世界上的雨林只覆盖着地球表面不到10%的地方，但支了生存着世界上超过40%的动植物种类。最大的雨林在南美洲，被称为亚马逊雨林。亚马逊是地球上现存的最大的一片雨林地区，面积大约有600－700万平方公里，大致是包括阿拉斯加在内的美国面积的2∕3，非常辽阔。亚马逊面积的60%在巴西，但雨林也延伸到了玻利维亚、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔、哥伦比亚、委内瑞拉、法属圭亚那以及苏里南的境内。令人惊奇的是，亚马逊雨林每年供应世界上20%的淡水。这里至少有六七万种植物和3000种淡水鱼，猴子比地球上任何地方都要多。仅在巴西就确认了9种新的猴子。去年，但在这些众多的生物种类当中，不管书籍的还是未知的，有许多每天都在遭到毁灭。不断的伐木、采矿和放牧正在使雨林渐渐地消失。"我们已经推动了远超过50%的雨林，这些雨林上个世纪初还存在。如果目前的趋势继续发展下去，我们定将失去与我们共同居住在这个星球上的很大一部分生命形态。"像米特迈耶博士这样的科学家们与国际自然资源保护组织正在努力改变这种状况。
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The world's rainforest cover less than ten percent of the earth's surface, but contain over forty percent of all plant and animal species. The biggest rainforest is in South America. It's called the Amazon. The Amazon is by far the largest remaining rainforest area left on our planet. It's about six to seven million square kilometers. It's about two-thirds the size of the United States including Alaska. It's enormous. Sixty percent of it is in Brazil, but the rainforest also extends into Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana and Surinam. And amazingly each year the Amazon provides twenty percent of the world's fresh water. Here you can find at least sixty to seventy thousand plant species and at least three thousand species of fresh water fish. And more monkeys than you can find anywhere else on earth. In Brazil alone, nine new species of monkeys have been identified over the last year. But many of those species, known and unknown, are destroyed every day. Constant logging, mining and cattle ranching are stripping the jungles clean. "We've already lost well over fifty percent of the rainforest that existed at the turn of the last century. And if current trends continue we stand to lose a very large percentage of the life forms that share the planet with us." Scientists like Dr.Mittermeier and Conservation International are trying to make a difference.
亚马逊雨林
世界上的雨林只覆盖着地球表面不到10%的地方，但支了生存着世界上超过40%的动植物种类。最大的雨林在南美洲，被称为亚马逊雨林。亚马逊是地球上现存的最大的一片雨林地区，面积大约有600－700万平方公里，大致是包括阿拉斯加在内的美国面积的2∕3，非常辽阔。亚马逊面积的60%在巴西，但雨林也延伸到了玻利维亚、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔、哥伦比亚、委内瑞拉、法属圭亚那以及苏里南的境内。令人惊奇的是，亚马逊雨林每年供应世界上20%的淡水。这里至少有六七万种植物和3000种淡水鱼，猴子比地球上任何地方都要多。仅在巴西就确认了9种新的猴子。去年，但在这些众多的生物种类当中，不管书籍的还是未知的，有许多每天都在遭到毁灭。不断的伐木、采矿和放牧正在使雨林渐渐地消失。"我们已经推动了远超过50%的雨林，这些雨林上个世纪初还存在。如果目前的趋势继续发展下去，我们定将失去与我们共同居住在这个星球上的很大一部分生命形态。"像米特迈耶博士这样的科学家们与国际自然资源保护组织正在努力改变这种状况。
关键字:李阳英语
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