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CNN News: 博茨瓦纳取消大象狩猎禁令

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We start today in Southern Africa. A change has been made in the nation of Botswana, and it concerns elephants.

今天我们从南非开始。博茨瓦纳发生了变化,这与大象有关。

Since 2014, it’s been illegal to hunt them there. Botswana has an estimated 130,000 African elephants, more than any other African country.

自2014年以来,在博茨瓦纳猎杀它们是非法的。博茨瓦纳估计有13万头非洲象,比其他非洲国家都多。

It put the hunting ban in 2014 to help the animals recover from habitat loss and poaching when people kill them illegally. Now, though, Botswana’s government has eliminated the ban, which means elephant hunting is once again allowed there, as it already is in neighboring nations.

博茨瓦纳猎在2014年颁布了狩猎禁令,以帮助那些无栖息地和偷猎中的动物中恢复过来。然而现在,博茨瓦纳政府已经取消了这一禁令,这意味着狩猎大象再次被允许,就像邻国那样。

The idea is that legal hunting will take place in the wilderness, far away from where people live. The government says elephant populations are now stable, so they can be hunted, and it says that problems between residents and elephants had been increasing. Scores of people are killed or injured by elephants each year.

其理念是,合法狩猎将在远离人类居住地的荒野中进行。政府说,大象的数量现在是稳定的,所以可以猎杀它们,而且居民和大象之间的问题一直在增加。每年有数十人被大象杀死或伤害。

And a villager who spoke to CNN says the animals destroy crops and don’t benefit the community. Conservationists, of course, have a different view, One told CNN that hunting is a, quote, "outdated practice which has no place in the modern world." And another said that allowing elephant hunting is like allowing people to shoot cats, dogs or great apes.

一位村民在接受CNN采访时表示,这些动物毁坏了庄稼,对社区没有好处。当然,自然资源保护主义者有不同的观点,一个人告诉CNN,狩猎是一种“过时的做法,在现代世界没有立足之地。”还有人说,允许猎杀大象就像允许人们射杀猫、狗或类人猿一样。

But he also says that if elephant hunting is managed correctly, it won’t affect overall numbers of elephants in Botswana. Poaching, however, can.

但他也表示,如果猎象管理得当,不会影响博茨瓦纳大象的总数。但偷猎除外。

There are signs that poaching’s been on the rise in Botswana. It’s carried out by people who hope to illegally sell the ivory from elephant tusks on the black market.

迹象表明,博茨瓦纳的偷猎活动正在增加。它是由那些希望在黑市非法出售象牙的人所实施的。

It’s not known exactly what kind of impact legal hunting will have on poaching or elephant populations as a whole, but it’s something that Botswana’s people, its government and conservationists will be watching.

目前还不清楚合法狩猎会对偷猎或大象数量产生何种影响,但这是博茨瓦纳人民、政府和自然资源保护主义者将密切关注此事。

We start today in Southern Africa. A change has been made in the nation of Botswana, and it concerns elephants.

Since 2014, it’s been illegal to hunt them there. Botswana has an estimated 130,000 African elephants, more than any other African country.

It put the hunting ban in 2014 to help the animals recover from habitat loss and poaching when people kill them illegally. Now, though, Botswana’s government has eliminated the ban, which means elephant hunting is once again allowed there, as it already is in neighboring nations.

The idea is that legal hunting will take place in the wilderness, far away from where people live. The government says elephant populations are now stable, so they can be hunted, and it says that problems between residents and elephants had been increasing. Scores of people are killed or injured by elephants each year.

And a villager who spoke to CNN says the animals destroy crops and don’t benefit the community. Conservationists, of course, have a different view, One told CNN that hunting is a, quote, "outdated practice which has no place in the modern world." And another said that allowing elephant hunting is like allowing people to shoot cats, dogs or great apes.

But he also says that if elephant hunting is managed correctly, it won’t affect overall numbers of elephants in Botswana. Poaching, however, can.

There are signs that poaching’s been on the rise in Botswana. It’s carried out by people who hope to illegally sell the ivory from elephant tusks on the black market.

It’s not known exactly what kind of impact legal hunting will have on poaching or elephant populations as a whole, but it’s something that Botswana’s people, its government and conservationists will be watching.

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