VOA慢速英语:50万美元征集减少偷猎野生动物建议

The U.S. Agency for International Development is launching a competition to fight wildlife poaching and trafficking. USAID is asking people to submit ideas that use science and technology to reduce the illegal activities. The agency will pay the winner up to $500,000.

美国国际开发署正在与偷猎和贩卖野生动物的偷猎者进行抗争。USAID正在向人们征集主义利用科学和技术减少非法狩猎活动。该机构将支付最佳提意见者50万美元。

People or groups can write a short description of their ideas and submit them to wildlifecrimetech.org by the end of this month.

个人或者组织团体可以在本月底前向wildlifecrimetech.org提交简短的解决办法建议。

Michael Yates is the USAID mission director in Asia. He says individuals and organizations that fight the traffickers want help discovering where the criminals travel. They also want to learn ways to strengthen evidence against traffickers. And they want to learn how to reduce the demand for wildlife, as well as how to stop corruption.

Michael Yates是USAID亚洲项目的主任。他说个人和组织对抗非法狩猎者可以帮助发现犯罪分子的踪迹。他们还想学习掌握犯罪证据来指正狩猎者。同时他们希望能够学会怎样减少对野生动物的需求，以及如何防止腐败。

"They're all interlinked. And it's going to take concerted action in each one of these areas to really address this issue. And it's something that needs to be addressed with urgency. The trend lines are just enormously troublesome with respect to the increase in poaching."

他们之间都是相通的。这还需要采取共同行动来真正解决这个问题。这是非常迫切需要解决的问题。这一增长趋势遵守偷猎行为所带来麻烦的增加趋势。

Mr. Yates says every member of society must help if a solution is to be found. Governments cannot solve the issue on their own, he says. Instead, USAID is seeking ideas from the public.

Yates说当找到一个解决方案的时候每一位社会成员必须提供帮助。他说，政府不能靠自己解决好这个问题。所以，USAID需要向公众寻求意见帮助。

USAID is working with the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution and the wildlife tracking network TRAFFIC on the project. The agency says an idea will be judged on its possible effect on trafficking and whether it can be used in large-scale actions against criminals. The strongest ideas will then be placed into the competition.

USAID与美国国家地理杂志，史密森学会和野生动物追踪网络TRAFFIC就这一项目共同工作。该机构表示一个意见的提出将会被判断是否能够有效影响偷猎者，和是否能够用于大规模抓捕犯罪分子行动中。最有效的方法将会被运用到实践中。

I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.

VOA Asia Correspondent Steve Herman reported this story from Bangkok. Christopher Jones-Cruise adapted it into VOA Learning English. Kelly Jean Kelly was the editor.

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Words in This Story

concerted – adj. done in a planned and deliberate way, usually by several or many people

address – v. to give attention to something; to deal with a matter, issue or problem

trend lines – n. (informal) a line indicating the general course or tendency of something; direction