CNN News: 到2020年 世界上2/3野生動物將會滅絕？

The World Wildlife Fund, an international conservation group, says more than two-thirds of the world`s wildlife could be gone by the year 2020.

世界野生動物基金會，這個國際保護組織，表示，截止到2020年，世界上將有2/3的野生動物會滅絕。

The organization says there`s already been a 58 percent decrease in the number of fish, mammals, birds and reptiles since 1970. The number of elephants as we`ve reported has dropped drastically, in part because of poaching. And the WWF says overfishing could make a third of the planet`s sharks extinct.

該組織表明，自1970年魚類、哺乳動物、鳥類和爬行動物的數(shù)量下降了58%.我們之前報道過，由于捕殺等原因，大象的數(shù)量也急劇下降。世界野生動物基金會表示，過度捕撈使世界上1/3的鯊魚滅絕。

Looking at wildlife as a whole, one major reason for all this is habitat loss. A WWF conservation scientist says it`s because people are using so much of the planet and destroying so much of the animals` habitat. His organization suggests more government laws protecting the environment and that people look for more sustainable products and renewable energy.

就整體而言，野生動物滅絕的主要的原因就是棲息地喪失。一位世界野生動物基金會環(huán)?？茖W(xué)家表示，人類利用了地球上絕大面積，并且在不斷破壞動物的棲息地?；饡ㄗh，應(yīng)該出臺更多保護環(huán)境的政府法律，并且人類應(yīng)該尋找更多的可持續(xù)產(chǎn)品以及可再生能源。

But not all scientists totally agree with the WWF report. A conservation ecology professor at Duke University says it`s true that wildlife is declining, but he called some of the WWF`s numbers sketchy and said its research is flawed, in part because most of it focuses on Western Europe.

但是并不是所有的科學(xué)家都同意世界野生動物基金會的報道。杜克大學(xué)的生態(tài)學(xué)教授表示，野生動物的確正在減少，同時他表示基金會的數(shù)字統(tǒng)計粗略，同時研究存在缺陷，造成上述結(jié)果的原因是因為，基金會的研究的焦點是西歐。

As history books defined it, the Cold War started after World War II. It involved the U.S. and its allies versus the Soviet Union and its allies.

歷史書上的定義是，二戰(zhàn)之后，開始冷戰(zhàn)。涉及的對象是美國及其盟友以及蘇聯(lián)和其盟友。

The rivalry was political, economic, ideologic, but it stopped short of an outright military conflict.

此次競爭涉及政治、經(jīng)濟以及意識形態(tài)，但是沒有直接的軍事沖突。

Now, though, there`s a military buildup in Eastern Europe that`s the largest since the Cold War. The United Kingdom is planning to send fighter jets to Romania. The U.S. is set to send troops and tanks to Poland. Russia recently sailed warships close to British waters on their way to Syria.

現(xiàn)在，東歐建立了自二戰(zhàn)以來，最大的軍事組織。英國計劃派遣戰(zhàn)斗機到羅馬尼亞。美國也計劃派遣軍隊和坦克到達波蘭。俄羅斯最近將軍艦接近英國海域。

It all has international officials asking, is this the beginning of a new Cold War?

國際官員詢問，這難道標(biāo)志著新的冷戰(zhàn)開始嗎?