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澳大利亚消防员拯救了世界上唯一稀有的恐龙树

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2020年01月17日

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Australia firefighters save world’s only rare dinosaur trees

澳大利亚消防员拯救了世界上唯一稀有的恐龙树

Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.

澳大利亚官员于本周四称,消防专家们从一场森林大火中拯救了世界上仅存的一棵史前原始森林。这场森林大火烧毁了悉尼以西的多处森林。

Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a massive wildlife bore down, National Parks and Wildlife Service Director David Crust said.

国家公园和野生动物服务中心主任David Crust说,在大规模的野生动物开凿之前一周,消防队员从直升机上到达了蓝山一个偏远峡谷中不到200棵沃勒米松树的生长区域。

澳大利亚消防员拯救了世界上唯一稀有的恐龙树

The firefighters set up an irrigation system to keep the so-called dinosaur trees moist and pumped water daily from the gorge as the blaze that had burned out of control for more than two month edged closer.

消防队员建立了一个灌溉系统,每天从峡谷抽水,以保持所谓的恐龙树的湿润,此时大火已经失去控制燃烧了两个多月,慢慢逼近。

Firefighting planes strategically bombed the fire front with fire retardant to slow its progress.

消防飞机用阻燃剂对火场进行了战略性轰炸,以延缓火势蔓延。

“That helped just to slow the intensity of the fire as it approached the site,” Crust told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Crust告诉澳大利亚广播公司说:“当火势接近现场时,这能帮助减缓火势的强度。”

“The Wollemi Pine is a particularly important species and the fact that this is the only place in the world where they exist and they exist in such small numbers is really significant,” he added.

“沃勒米松是一个特别重要的物种,这里是它们在世界上唯一的生存之地,它们的数量极少,这一事实真的很重要。”他补充说。

澳大利亚消防员拯救了世界上唯一稀有的恐龙树

New South Wales state Environment Minister Matt Kean said the operation had saved the stand, although some plants had been singed.

新南威尔士州环境部长基恩(Matt Kean)说,尽管一些工厂被烧焦了,但这次行动挽救了这棵树。

“These pines outlived the dinosaurs, so when we saw the fire approaching we realized we had to do everything we could to save them,” Kean said.

基恩说:“这些松树比恐龙活得更久,所以当我们看到大火逼近时,我们意识到必须尽一切努力来拯救它们。”

The Wollemi Pine had only been seen in its fossilized form and was thought long extinct before the stand was found in 1994.

在1994年发现它之前,沃勒米松只以化石的形式出现过,人们以为它早已灭绝。


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