首页
登录
职称英语
Depressing reports about how quickly the world’s tropical forests are being
Depressing reports about how quickly the world’s tropical forests are being
游客
2024-09-28
12
管理
问题
Depressing reports about how quickly the world’s tropical forests are being felled are commonplace. But depressing reports about the state of the trees that are still standing are much rarer. In fact, a new study from the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) , an offshoot of the United Nations, claims to be the first exhaustive survey of tropical-forest management ever undertaken. Its findings, although grim, do contain a kernel of hope.
The ITTO examined "permanent forest estate" , meaning land that the governments of its 33 members have formally set aside for forests, and is therefore subject to some form of regulation or protection. The category includes both national parks and timber concessions, in both public and private hands. It covers 814m hectares, and accounts for roughly two-thirds of the world’s tropical forests.
The concept is important, explains Duncan Poore, one of the authors of the report, because it is not always possible, or desirable, to protect every last grove against encroaching farms or homes. Instead, governments should concentrate on maintaining the forests that are the most commercially and scientifically valuable. Yet the ITTO’s researchers found that only 15% of the permanent forest estate has a management plan, and less than 5% of it is sustainably managed. That still amounts to an area the size of Germany, the report notes, and represents a dramatic improvement since 1988, when an earlier and less extensive survey found that only one country in the tropics—Trinidad and Tobago—had any well-run forests at all. But relative to the area of forest that has disappeared over the same period, the well-managed area is negligible.
The crux is bad government. Poor countries do not always have good forestry laws. Even when they do, they rarely have the capacity to enforce them. It is no coincidence that Malaysia, the country with the highest proportion of prudently managed forest in the study, is also one of the richest. Countries with the worst run forests, meanwhile, are war-torn places such as Congo and Cambodia.
More surprising, perhaps, is the difference the report found between forests where logging is allowed, and those that have been earmarked for conservation. Some 7% of "production" forests, it turns out, are in good shape, compared with just 2. 4% of "protection" forests. As Dr Poore points out, it is easy to undertake to preserve a forest, but difficult to do so in practice. Timber concessionaires at least have an incentive to look after their property, while ill-paid and ill-equipped forestry officials often have neither. Exploiting forests may prove the best way to preserve them. [br] The word "negligible" in Paragraph Three probably means
选项
A、insignificant.
B、meaningful.
C、well-protected.
D、expansive.
答案
A
解析
语义题。定位至第三段末句。之前两句介绍了永久性森林地产的管理情况,由此可以知道管理完善的地区所占比例甚小,因此A符合本处语境,故为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3777491.html
相关试题推荐
Theproblemof______toselectashissuccessorwasquicklydisposedof.A、what
Depressingreportsabouthowquicklytheworld’stropicalforestsarebeing
Depressingreportsabouthowquicklytheworld’stropicalforestsarebeing
Askforadoctorasquicklyaspossibleandtellhimit’sa______oflifeandd
Thearticleopensandcloseswithdescriptionsoftwonewsreports,each______
Wouldyouquicklylook______thesefiguresformeandseeifthereareanyobviou
Thelossoftherainforestswouldupsettheclimatesoftropicalcountries,bri
WhydomanytouristsvisitMuirwoodsratherthanotherredwoodsforests?A、Ithas
It’shightimewe_____cuttingdowntherainforests.(2006)A、stoppedB、hadtostop
Ourschoollibraryis______closedforrepairs.(2011-68)A、shortlyB、quicklyC、ra
随机试题
Thespecialeducationmentionedinthetextismainlyconcernedwith______.[br
决策支持系统的特点是增加了()和(请作答此空),建立了()和数据库的有机结
从中华人民共和国的成立到社会主义改造的基本完成,中国社会属于()。 A.民主主
下列选项中,属于行政优益权的是( )。A、行政立法权 B、行政命令权 C、行
“落霞与孤鹜齐飞,秋水共长天一色。”这句诗的作者是(),它描述的是我国三大名楼中
一般来说,投资于房地产信托基金(REITs)的风险比直接投资于房地产的风险要小得
辩证唯物主义认识论认为,人的认识作为对客观事物的反映,必然要以客观事物为原型,它
某资本家开办一家钢铁厂,投入2000万购置厂房和机器设备,投入1000万采购原材
取得从业资格考试合格证明或者被注销从业资格的人员连续()年未在机构中执业的,在
甲与乙打架时丙正好路过,其不慎被丢来的石块砸伤遂起诉到法院要求甲、乙赔偿医疗费、
最新回复
(
0
)