自然保护 Conservation
作为国际社会的积极一员，中国有责任公开其在西非等地海外捕鱼作业的影响。
As an active member of the international community, China has a responsibility to be transparent about the impact of its overseas fishing fleets, particularly in West Africa
云南省委副书记仇和说，云南的江水流向了国外，要应对大旱，云南必须蓄水。此论引起很大争议。杨方义、周嘉鼎认为仇和的建议仅部分应对了工程性缺水，但忽视了云南旱灾中的生态型缺水和水质性缺水。
Calls by Yunnan officials to restrict water flows to other countries overlook the ecological and water quality factors behind south-west China’s drought
民间组织第一次提出条款严谨、清晰的立法草案，已经成为全国人大会议新的立法议案。中国民众正慢慢参与到政治决策中来。
A new NGO-proposed law on nature reserves is a sign of an increasingly active civil society movement, pushing to be involved in the Chinese political process
气候变化和过度放牧正损害着西藏的自然环境，科学家和政府官员们都在努力保护地球上这片最原始的土地 。
With climate change and overgrazing taking a toll on the landscape, efforts are being made to preserve one of the planet’s wildest places, explains George Schaller
观鲨旅游项目利润丰厚，年收益将增至7.8亿美元，鱼翅贸易有望因此终结
Lucrative shark tourism industry - set to be worth US$780 a year - could provide incentive to end the shark fin trade
人类在过去100中的过度捕捞导致了鳕鱼、鲨鱼、金枪鱼和箭鱼等大型鱼类数目急剧减少。
A century of overfishing by humans has seen a vast reduction in the numbers of large fish, such as cod, sharks, tuna and swordfish
湖南和四川两省的温带针阔混交林是世界同类森林中生物多样性最丰富的，保护它们则是国际责任。
China’s forests in Hunan and Sichuan are the richest of their kind in the world. Conserving them is an international responsibility, says WWF’s Eric Dinerstein
亚马逊雨林的命运和我们所有人都息息相关。然而，正如美国记者蒙特•里尔在这本出色的著作里所指出的：你距离问题越近就越迷茫。没错，森林滥伐是一场环境灾难，原住民的权利也是一个热门话题，但巴西有很多人都把那些向伐木者及其同类施加的国际压力看作一种伪善。
The fate of the Amazonian rainforest is one that concerns us all. Yet as the American journalist Monte Reel suggests in this excellent book, the closer you get to the problem, the harder it is to see your way.
环保部宣布将下放环评审批权限。自然之友理事、前总干事李波认为，这一做法将令中国的环境更加恶化。
Moves by the Ministry of Environmental Protection to devolve powers to the local level is a mistake, says Friends of Nature director Li Bo
中国工人已进入格陵兰的报道罔顾事实，格陵兰政府尚未就矿产开采达成协议。
Talk of thousands of Chinese workers on the ground in Greenland masks the reality of a country still coming to terms with its potential mining wealth
