But climate change, deforestation and agriculture mean the CO2-soaking-up ability of the continents is being depleted.

但气候变化、采伐森林和农耕意味着陆地吸收二氧化碳的能力正在枯竭。

As a consequence, 20% of the planet's greenhouse emissions are caused by deforestation.

因此地球上 20% 的温室气体排放来源于森林采伐。

World leaders at the Climate Summit in Glasgow have agreed to end deforestation by 2030.

在格拉斯哥举行的气候峰会上，世界各国导人同意在2030年前结束采伐森林。

The Tanzanian chimps are crowded together as deforestation around their reserve reduces the amount of habitat available.

在坦桑尼亚，黑猩猩所生活的自然保护区周边地区进行了大量的森林采伐，减少了栖息之地的数量，只能团抱度日。

The republican controlled house passed a bill today to allow for more logging in national forests.

今天，共和党掌控的众议院通过了一项法案，允许更多人在国家森林采伐。

Another possible reason that glaciers are melting is deforestation, which happens when trees are cut down in mass quantities.

另一种说法认为，乞力马扎罗山的冰川由于森林采伐，也就是大量砍伐树木。

Cutting forests releases greenhouse gases from the wood and the soil, and fertilisers create greenhouse gases too.

而采伐森林会导致温室气体从树木、土地中散发出来，肥料也能产生温室气体。

They worked in gold mines and harvested trees from the forests.

他们曾在金矿工作，从森林中采伐树木。

Okay, so zooming out, where are we when it comes to logging of native forests around the country?

好的，从宏观角度来看，当我们谈到全国范围内原生森林的采伐时，现状如何？

One of the main reasons is the types of wood that are now used - harvested from  sustainably managed forests.

主要原因之一是现在使用的木材类型——从可持续管理的森林中采伐。

To protect that beauty, she co-founded the Sierra Gorda Ecological Group in 1987 after witnessing deforestation as a result of agriculture, manmade fires and illegal logging.

为了保护这里美丽的环境，经历过1987年的因农业、人为火灾和非法采伐造成的森林砍伐之后，她和其他人共同创建了西拉格达生态小组。

For example, an ecosystem, even that of a working forest or farm, so long as it remains ecologically intact, is inexhaustible.

比如，即便是采伐的森林或经营的农场，只要其生态系统保持完好，就可以取之不尽。

There is a carve out from the federal environmental law that leaves the regulation of native forest logging to state governments.

有一项联邦环保法律的例外条款，将原生森林采伐的监管权留给了州政府。

It's deforestation – cutting down forests – that causes greenhouse gases from wood and soil to be released. And there's another reason too – the use of fertilisers.

就是因为采伐森林，导致了温室气体从树木和土壤中释放了出来。还有另外一个原因，就是肥料的使用。

You sit down on a stool and smile as he expertly handcrafts the spokes for the parasol, made from bamboo sourced from a nearby forest.

你坐在凳子上， 微笑着看着他熟练地手工制作和伞的伞骨，这些伞骨是由附近森林里采伐的竹子制成的。

So eating more meat means farmers need more land to keep their animals on. And to get more land, they need to cut down trees – which is called deforestation.

也就是说，吃的肉多了，农民就需要更多的土地来圈养动物。而为了得到更多的土地，他们就会去砍树，也就是我们所说的采伐森林。

Despite this, over 70% of their habitat has been destroyed over the last 25 years, mostly due to deforestation for pulp and paper industries, as well as oil palm plantations.

尽管如此，它们超过20%的栖息地在近25年已经被破坏，大部分是因为纸浆和造纸工业对森林的采伐和棕榈种植而引起的滥砍滥伐。

They realised that we had come to the end of the road in terms of the capacity to be able to sustainably log native forests.

他们意识到我们已经到了无法继续可持续采伐原生森林的尽头。

And according to that integrated forestry operations approval, they had certain requirements to undertake pre-logging surveys and specifically for greater gliders across the forest compartments that were proposed or slated for logging.

根据该综合林业作业许可，他们需满足特定要求， 即在提议或计划采伐的森林区域内进行伐前调查， 尤其是针对那些区域内的滑翔袋貂。