【CET6】【每日打卡】珊瑚礁農場恢復珊瑚礁
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Coral Farms Revive the Reefs
Reefs are made up of ancient coral and sand sediment deposited over thousands of years.
They serve as a protective barrier for coastlines, a nursery for marine life and an attraction for tourists.
But the world』s reefs are being damaged by overfishing and pollution.
Rising ocean temperatures caused bleaching
where the individual coral polyps making up the reef expel the algae that live within their tissues.
Without the nutrients they provide, the corals will die.
That the biggest changes I think in terms of the environment have been through the bleaching event
that we suffered in 1998 which was the worst we』ve ever had.
And we lost in some areas up to 90% of our coral reefs
and then those reefs were recovering and had actually recovered to a reasonable extent
until 2016 when we had another bleaching event.
If nothing changes, the world』s reefs will reach their tipping point before the end of the century,
disappearing more quickly than they can restore themselves,
according to a study published in the journal Science.
This year the Seychelles government announced a pioneering deal in which
it swapped part of its sovereign debt for investment in marine protection areas.
Already conservationists have launched a number of reef restoration projects around the nation』s 115 islands.
At one site workers spent the morning transferring tiny coral fragments
that had been collected from the sea floor and nurtured in tanks
to an underwater rope nursery or improvised skeleton.
When the corals are gonna to reach a suitable size, when they are big enough,
they are gonna to be outplanted back on the reef.
And these will increase the number of remaining coral colony
so you』re gonna increase the coral cover the core abundance
but also the biodiversity depending on which species you』re transplanting and the topography of the week as well.
Saving the reefs also means saving the Seychelles vibrant tourist economy.
Obviously we have divers and snorkelers and if we can continue to have healthy reefs and lots of fish,
we got happy divers, they do lots of dives, the dive center makes more business,
the government gets more tax money and everybody』s happy.
The Seychelles government is working with nature Seychelles
to secure funding to turn small-scale designer coral farms into larger operations.
The aim is to commercialize part of the process
so we can financially sustain coral reef restoration well into the future.
For writer Faiza Elmasry,I』m Faith Lapidus VOA news.
【title】
珊瑚礁農場恢復珊瑚礁
【translation】
珊瑚礁由數千年來沉積的古老珊瑚和沙沉積物組成。
它們是海岸線的保護屏障，是海洋生物的託兒所，也是吸引遊客的地方。
但世界上的珊瑚礁正因過度捕撈和污染而受到損害。
海洋溫度上升導致漂白
在那裡，組成珊瑚礁的單個珊瑚息肉會將生活在它們組織中的藻類驅逐出去。
沒有它們提供的營養，珊瑚就會死亡。
我認為在環境方面最大的變化是漂白事件
我們在1998遭受的痛苦，這是我們所經歷過的最糟糕的一次。
我們在一些地區失去了90%的珊瑚礁
然後這些珊瑚礁正在恢復，實際上已經恢復到了合理的程度。
直到2016我們又有了一次漂白事件。
如果沒有任何變化，世界上的珊瑚礁將在本世紀末之前達到臨界點，
消失得比他們恢復的速度還快，
根據發表在「科學」雜誌上的一項研究。
今年，塞席爾政府宣布了一項開創性的協議
它把部分主權債務換成了海洋保護區的投資。
自然資源保護者已經在全國115個島嶼周圍啟動了一些珊瑚礁修復項目。
在一個地點，工作人員花了一早上的時間運送珊瑚碎片。
從海底收集並在水槽中培育的
水下繩索託兒所或臨時搭建的骨架。
當珊瑚達到合適的大小時，當它們足夠大的時候，
他們將被重新種植在礁石上。
這將增加剩餘珊瑚群的數量。
所以你要增加珊瑚覆蓋岩心的丰度
而且生物多樣性也取決於你要移植的物種和本周的地形。
拯救珊瑚礁也意味著拯救塞席爾充滿活力的旅遊經濟。
很明顯，我們有潛水員和浮潛者，如果我們能繼續擁有健康的珊瑚礁和大量的魚，
我們有快樂的潛水員，他們做很多潛水，潛水中心做更多的生意，
政府得到更多的稅金，每個人都很高興。
塞席爾政府正在與自然塞席爾合作。
以獲得資金，將小型設計珊瑚農場變成更大的業務。
其目的是使這一過程的一部分商業化。
這樣我們就可以在經濟上支持珊瑚礁的恢復。
我是法伊扎·埃爾馬斯里，我是法伊扎·拉皮德斯，美國之音新聞。
【tips】
Seychelles [地名] n. 塞席爾；非洲塞席爾群島
【vocabulary】
pioneering adj. 首創的；先驅的
sovereign n. 君主；獨立國；最高統治者
transferring v. 移動，[計] 轉移（transfer的現在分詞形式）
biodiversity n. 生物多樣性
commercialize vt. 使商業化；使商品化
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