加州提出保护其著名约书亚树的计划
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a proposed plan to protect the state's famous Joshua trees.
加州渔猎局发布了一项保护该州著名约书亚树的拟议计划。
Environmentalists say the trees are threatened by wildfires, human development and climate change.
环保人士表示，这些树木正受到野火、人类开发和气候变化的威胁。
An early version of the plan calls for avoiding or reducing direct and indirect effects of overgrazing, insect-killing chemical use and off-roading activity.
该计划的早期版本呼吁避免或减少过度放牧、使用杀虫化学品以及越野活动带来的直接和间接影响。
The plan advises moving trees when projects require their removal or could harm them.
该计划建议，当项目需要移除树木或可能对树木造成伤害时，应迁移这些树木。
It also calls for identifying and protecting lands where the trees could survive if the climate in southern California becomes drier and hotter.
报告还呼吁，在南加州气候变得更为干燥炎热的情况下，识别并保护那些树木能够存活下来的土地。
“In many ways, it's a good comprehensive plan of the things we need to do if the western Joshua tree is going to survive the very, very difficult decades ahead,” said Brendan Cummings.
布伦丹·卡明斯说：“从很多方面来说，这是一个很好的全面计划，列出了如果我们希望西部约书亚树能够挺过未来非常非常艰难的几十年，所需要做的事情。”
He is conservation director with the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona.
他是总部位于亚利桑那州图森市的生物多样性中心的保护主任。
The nonprofit group asked the California government in 2019 to list the western Joshua tree as threatened under the state's Endangered Species Act.
2019年，该非营利组织请求加利福尼亚州政府根据该州《濒危物种法》将西部约书亚树列为受威胁物种。
The conservation plan is a requirement by the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act.
该保护计划是《西部约书亚树保护法》的一项要求。
California lawmakers passed the act last year.
加州议员去年通过了该法案。
It is the first law in the state to protect a species from the threats of climate change.
这是该州首部旨在保护物种免受气候变化威胁的法律。
The law also bars anyone from killing, damaging, or removing a tree without state permission.
该法律还禁止任何人在未经州政府许可的情况下砍伐、损坏或移走树木。
The proposed plan lists ways to help identify land that should be recognized as most important for conservation.
该提案列出了帮助确定应被视为最重要保护对象的土地的方法。
This includes large areas with Joshua trees or areas with a high density of healthy and adult trees.
这包括分布有约书亚树的大片区域，或是健康成年树木密度较高的区域。
The plan suggests placing restrictions on areas where there is low risk of such threats as fires, invasive plants and animals, development and where pollinators and seed-spreading animals exist.
该计划建议对火灾、入侵动植物、开发等威胁风险较低的区域，以及对传粉动物和传播种子的动物栖息区域实施限制。
It aims to identify these lands by December 2025 and place permanent restrictions on 70 percent of them by 2033.
其目标是到2025年12月确定这些土地，并在2033年前对其中70%的土地实施永久性限制。
The plan also calls on land managers and wildfire workers to create methods to reduce and fight wildfires that threaten the trees and lessen effects from rehabilitating burned areas.
该计划还呼吁土地管理者和野火工作人员创建方法，以减少和扑灭威胁树木的野火，并减轻恢复烧毁区域所带来的影响。
That includes protecting trees, replanting them, planting other native species, and controlling invasive ones.
这包括保护树木、重新种植树木、种植其他本土物种以及控制入侵物种。
The proposed plan says, its effectiveness and the survival of the trees will mainly depend on whether reductions can be made in the release of heat-trapping gases.
该方案指出，其有效性以及树木的存活主要取决于能否减少温室气体的排放。
Such emissions come mainly from burning coal, oil and gas.
此类排放主要来自煤炭、石油和天然气的燃烧。
Cummings said climate change could destroy most, if not all, of the areas where the trees live if the situation does not change.
卡明斯表示，如果情况不发生改变，气候变化可能会摧毁树木生存的大部分地区，甚至可能是全部地区。
If emissions are limited as planned, Cummings said, “we have a very good chance of saving the species if all the things outlined in this plan are carried out.
卡明斯表示，如果排放量能按计划得到限制，“只要计划中列出的所有事项都能落实，我们挽救这一物种的希望就非常大。”
And primarily that’s doing what we can to protect as many of them as possible.
而主要就是尽我们所能保护尽可能多的人。
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Approval from California’s Fish and Game Commission is necessary for the proposed plan to go into effect.
拟议计划若要生效，必须获得加州渔猎委员会的批准。
I’m Caty Weaver.
我是凯蒂·韦弗。
The Associated Press reported this story.
美联社报道了这一事件。
Caty Weaver adapted the story for VOA Learning English.
卡蒂·韦弗为美国之音英语学习栏目改编了这个故事。
