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对于正在沦为沙漠的土地而言，荒漠化这个术语不过是个好听点儿的说法罢了。Allan Savory在这个充满力量的演讲开头这样说。而令人吃惊的是，荒漠化正吞噬着全球大约三分之二的草地，它加速了气候变化，并导致一些传统的放牧社会出现混乱。Savory一生都在致力于和荒漠化的抗衡。如今他坚信----他的工作成果也表明----有一个惊人的因素能够保护草地，并使那些昔日贫瘠的土地重现生机。
n. 基底，基础，底部，基线，基数，(棒球)垒，[化]碱
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- Today, we have young women like this one teaching villages in Africa how to put their animals together into larger herds, plan their grazing to mimic nature,
- 今天，我们有像这样的年轻女性在非洲的村庄里传授技术，如何把他们的动物集合成一大群，如何安排计划达到模拟大自然的效果，
- and where we have them hold their animals overnight -- we run them in a predator-friendly manner,
- 在哪里让他们的动物过夜——我们用一种对捕食者友好的方法，
- because we have a lot of lands, and so on -- and where they do this and hold them overnight to prepare the crop fields,
- 因为我们有很多土地，它们在哪里模拟大自然，在哪里过夜，
- we are getting very great increases in crop yield as well.
- 我们就在哪里准备庄稼地，我们的庄稼收成也会很好。
- Let's look at some results. This is land close to land that we manage in Zimbabwe.
- 看看这些结果。这块地靠近我们在津巴布韦的土地。
- It has just come through four months of very good rains it got that year, and it's going into the long dry season.
- 刚刚过了四个月的雨水充沛的季节，即将进入漫长的旱季。
- But as you can see, all of that rain, almost of all it, has evaporated from the soil surface.
- 可是你们也会看到，几乎所有的雨水，从土壤表面蒸发掉了。
- Their river is dry despite the rain just having ended, ok?
- 尽管雨停了，河还是干的，
- And we have 150,000 people on almost permanent food aid.
- 我们有15万人口几乎长期依靠食物援助。
- Now let's go to our land nearby on the same day, with the same rainfall, and look at that.
- 看看同一天我们的土地，同样的雨量，看吧。
- Our river is flowing and healthy and clean. It's fine.
- 我们的河水流淌，健康而干净。很好的。
- The production of grass, shrubs, trees, wildlife, everything is now more productive,
- 草、灌木、树木、野生动物等的一切都很高产，
- and we have virtually no fear of dry years.
- 我们一点都不怕干旱年头。
- And we did that by increasing the cattle and goats 400 percent,
- 这样做是通过增加了400%的牛和羊，
- planning the grazing to mimic nature and integrate them with all the elephants, buffalo, giraffe and other animals that we have.
- 有计划的放牧，模拟大自然的过程，跟大象、水牛、长颈鹿以及其它的动物融合一体。
- But before we began, our land looked like that.
- 但在我们开始前，我们的土地是这个样子。
- This site was bare and eroding for over 30 years regardless of what rain we got. Okay?
- 这块地裸露和侵蚀了30多年，不管下多少雨。
- Watch the marked tree and see the change as we use livestock to mimic nature.
- 看看这棵做了标记的树，看看我们用牲畜去模仿自然后的变化。
- This was another site where it had been bare and eroding,
- 这是另一块地，这里也曾裸露和侵蚀，
- and at the base of the marked small tree, we had lost over 30 centimeters of soil.
- 在这棵做了标记的小树底下，我们流失了30厘米的土壤。
- Okay? And again, watch the change just using livestock to mimic nature.
- 对吧？再看一下这个变化，只是使用牲畜去模仿自然。
- And there are fallen trees in there now, because the better land is now attracting elephants, etc.
- 这里有些倒下的树，因为土地变好更吸引大象。
- This land in Mexico was in terrible condition,
- 在墨西哥的这块土地情形很糟，
- and I've had to mark the hill because the change is so profound.
- 我在这个小山上做了标记，因为变化太大了。
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