World leaders at the Climate Summit in Glasgow have agreed to end deforestation by 2030.

在格拉斯哥举行的气候峰会上，世界各领导人同意在2030年前结束采伐林。

But climate change, deforestation and agriculture mean the CO2-soaking-up ability of the continents is being depleted.

但气候变化、采伐林和农耕意味着陆地吸收二氧化碳的力正在枯竭。

Cutting forests releases greenhouse gases from the wood and the soil, and fertilisers create greenhouse gases too.

而采伐林会导致温室气体从树木、土地中散发出来，肥料生温室气体。

As a consequence, 20% of the planet's greenhouse emissions are caused by deforestation.

因此地球上 20% 的温室气体排放来源于林采伐。

The republican controlled house passed a bill today to allow for more logging in national forests.

今天，共和党掌控的众议院通过了一项法案，允许更多人在林采伐。

Another possible reason that glaciers are melting is deforestation, which happens when trees are cut down in mass quantities.

另一种说法认为，乞力马扎罗山的冰川由于林采伐，就是大量砍伐树木。

The Tanzanian chimps are crowded together as deforestation around their reserve reduces the amount of habitat available.

在坦桑尼亚，黑猩猩所生活的自然保护区周边地区进行了大量的林采伐，减少了栖息之地的数量，只团抱度日。

One of the main reasons is the types of wood that are now used - harvested from  sustainably managed forests.

主要原因之一是现在使用的木材类型——从可持续管理的林中采伐。

For example, an ecosystem, even that of a working forest or farm, so long as it remains ecologically intact, is inexhaustible.

比如，即便是采伐的林或经营的农场，只要其生态系统保持完好，就可以取之不尽。

It's deforestation – cutting down forests – that causes greenhouse gases from wood and soil to be released. And there's another reason too – the use of fertilisers.

就是因为采伐林，导致了温室气体从树木和土壤中释放了出来。还有另外一个原因，就是肥料的使用。

To protect that beauty, she co-founded the Sierra Gorda Ecological Group in 1987 after witnessing deforestation as a result of agriculture, manmade fires and illegal logging.

为了保护这里美丽的环境，经历过1987年的因农业、人为火灾和非法采伐造成的林砍伐之后，她和其他人共同创建了西拉格达生态小组。

So eating more meat means farmers need more land to keep their animals on. And to get more land, they need to cut down trees – which is called deforestation.

就是说，吃的肉多了，农民就需要更多的土地来圈养动物。而为了得到更多的土地，他们就会去砍树，就是我们所说的采伐林。

Despite this, over 70% of their habitat has been destroyed over the last 25 years, mostly due to deforestation for pulp and paper industries, as well as oil palm plantations.

尽管如此，它们超过20%的栖息地在近25年已经被破坏，大部分是因为纸浆和造纸工业对林的采伐和棕榈种植而引起的滥砍滥伐。