科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-2-10
时间：2019-01-20 作者：英语课 分类：2014年Scientific American(二)月
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The drug trade has devastated 1 the communities in central South America. Policy-makers are now looking at moving away from trying to stop drug production to trying to curve demand. If it works,and all kinds of producers lose power, central america's forests may benefit alone with it's people. That's according to a new policy report in the Journal Science.
It turns out that the growth of cocain business has led in Central Americal to what is called narco deforestration. The pratice takes place in econologically sensitive and even protected areas. Poverty, weak governments and illegal logging all affect forest use. But central America has become an important brige between the US and South America's Cocain. Forests have been slashed 2 for roads and plane landings. And when local rigion's timber sellers become rich with drug money, they expand the operations. All kind of producers also develop habitate for legal agriculture that's used to laudrary drug money.
Government agents are brave to turn away and conservation groups are fear entering these areas.
The study auther says that the ecological 3 unconservation impacts the drug trader under appreciated, and they should imform but conservation and drug policy in the future.
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 )；鞭打；割破；削减
- Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
- He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.生态的，生态学的
- The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.这个地区已经宣布为生态灾难区。
- Each animal has its ecological niche.每种动物都有自己的生态位.