CNN News:刚果国家公园非法涉猎森林象现象严重

See, if you can I.D. me. My official language is French, because I got my independence from France in 1960, but I`m located in Western Africa. My borders tough Angola, Cameroon, Gabon and the Atlantic Ocean. I`m the Republic of Congo, a nation of 4.5 million people.

你能猜出我么?我的官方语言为法语，因为我在1960年脱离法国独立，但是我地理位置位于非洲西部。我周围与安哥拉，喀麦隆，加蓬和大西洋相邻。我就是刚果共和国，一个拥有450万人口的国家。

Almost half of those people leave below the poverty line. Unemployment in the Republic of Congo is 53 percent. That`s why there is so much poaching, illegal hunting. In this case, hunting of endangered animals like the African forest elephant. Their tusks are ivory. It`s a valuable material that poachers are willing to kill them for, even at the risk of the hunters` own lives.

几乎一半人口的居住水平甚至低于贫困线水平，失业率高达53%，这也是该地频发偷猎非法狩猎行为原因。在非法狩猎中多见猎杀非洲森林象这种稀有动物，他们目标是象牙。因为象牙是一种具有极高价值的材料所以偷猎者宁愿不惜一切代价猎杀大象。

It`s been eight grueling hot hours on this river, chasing poachers on the Republic of Congo`s largest national park.

在刚果共和国最大的国家公园闷热潮湿的环境下，我们追踪狩猎者已经达8个小时。

For these eco guards, disappointment follows disappointment.

面对眼前景象对生态环境守卫者来讲，带来的是接二连三的打击和失望。

When you put your hand inside, it`s actually still quite warm, which means that they probably left earlier in the morning.

把手放进去之后还能感觉到余温，这说明他们刚走不远。

Finally around the bank signs of activity. Smoke rising along the bank. They rush ashore and fan out into the jungle. Within seconds, a gunshot.

终于听到河岸边上有动静了，炊烟在河岸边缓缓升起，他们冲到岸边压倒了丛林里的灌木丛。没过几秒钟，一声枪响响彻丛林。

And the pursuit begins. The terrain is dense and disoriented. The men force their way through the undergrowth and sloshed through knee-deep water. Our CNN team can barely keep up.

紧张的追捕行动马上开始了，这里的地形非常复杂，很容易迷失方向。守卫者们强行穿过矮灌木丛在及膝盖深的水中追赶，我们CNN团队几乎要跟不上了。

They`ve all gone forward, trying to chase down what seems to be a poacher who at least most definitely is armed. They apparently have caught him completely by surprise.

他们一直往前走，试图发现狩猎者留下的一些痕迹，最终确定狩猎者已经被抓住了。他们对抓到的狩猎者感到吃惊。

Matthew Akal (ph), head of the park`s antipoaching division, brandishes the weapon captured by one of his men.

Matthew Aka，公园反偷猎部门主管，惊恐的挥舞着武器，最终被他的员工制服。

trying to shoot him.

试图朝他开枪。

There is elephant meat in the boat.

在船上装有象肉。

The men find the poacher`s canoe, weighed down with fresh elephant meat. The non-profit group African Parks, which runs Odzala estimates that Central Africa has lost 62 percent of its forest elephants in the last decade. In this park alone, thousands have been killed in the last five years. In the week we spend here, we only saw one alive.

人们找到狩猎者的独木舟时船只已经被象肉压沉了一些。经营奥扎拉公园的非洲非营利性公园组织估计称中非已经在过去十年里失去了近62%的非洲森林象，仅在这个公园里在过去五年内就有数千只非洲森林象被杀。我们在这里呆了近一周的时间，现在只看到了一只活着的非洲森林象。

The park about the size of Connecticut is patrolled by just 76 eco guards, not nearly enough, but some 40 percent of them are former poachers themselves.

这个公园差不多和康涅狄格洲大小相似，却只有76个生态守卫者巡逻，这是远远不够的，但是近40%的成员之前都是偷猎者。

They eco guards torch the camp to send a message. These men often find themselves pursuing people they once worked with, friends, neighbors and even family members. In the ever-evolving fight against the ivory trade out here, it`s now personal. Arwa Damon, CNN, Odzala National Park, Republic of Congo.

他们通过点燃营火来发送信号。这些人发现自己经常在他们以前工作的同事，或者朋友，或者邻居，甚至是家庭成员的陪同下生活。现在面对反象牙交易过程中，他们将是独自战斗。CNN记者Arwa Damon在刚果共和国奥扎拉国家公园为您报道。