结果，世界上的森林正面临着逐渐灭绝的处境。
As a result, the world's forests are now facing gradual extinction.
海龟、北极熊和大熊猫只是世界上成千上万濒临灭绝的动物中的一部分。
Sea turtles, polar bears and giant pandas are just some of the thousands of animals in this world that are at risk of extinction.
最近一份报告显示，世界634个灵长目动物物种中，48%面临灭绝的威胁，被自然保护者国际组织列为红色警告。
A recent report showed that, of the world's 634 primate species, 48% are classified as threatened with extinction on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's "red list".
在过去的200年前，这个国家中灭绝的哺乳动物物种比世界上的其他任何地方都要多。
More mammals have become extinct in that country over the last 200 years than in any other place in the world.
但那“另一世界”对人是完全封闭的，那灭绝人性、非人道的世界，是个乌有的天堂；而存在不会推心置腹地跟人说话，除非以人的面目出现。
But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.
或者通过世界野生动物基金领养一个濒临灭绝的物种，这样你能得到一个可爱的宠物和收养证书。
Or adopt an endangered species through the World Wildlife Fund, and you’ll get a lovable stuffed pet and adoption certificate.
作为世界上第三大热门的沙漠，戈壁拥有数个地球上最大的沙丘以及独一无二的野生动物象濒临灭绝的戈壁熊。
The world's third largest "hot" desert, the Gobi is home to some of Earth's largest dunes, as well as unique wildlife like the endangered Gobi bear.
或者通过世界野生动物基金领养一个濒临灭绝的物种，这样你能得到一个可爱的宠物和收养证书。
Or adopt an endangered species through the World Wildlife Fund, and you'll get a lovable stuffed pet and adoption certificate.
现在，英语作为当代世界的全球语言，已经有了大量的地域性变体——或许，作为英语协助抹灭那些单词的一种回报，越来越多的语言被灭绝了。
As the global language of the modern world, it now has lots of local variants-some recompense perhaps for the words it helps to obliterate as more and more languages become extinct.
在全世界的公海领域中，有一半的鲨鱼濒临灭绝。
Fifty percent of open water sharks in the world are threatened with extinction.
报告警告说，南半球大部分地区正受到特别严重的折磨，澳大利亚、新西兰以及邻近的太平洋岛屿有可能成为世界上物种灭绝的热点。
Much of the southern hemisphere is suffering particularly badly, and Australia, New Zealand and neighbouring Pacific islands may become the extinction hot spots of the world, the report warns.
世界自然保护联盟把它列为“濒危”动物，在野外两步就能使它灭绝，即因为它的栖息地森林被砍伐和烧毁以用来种植农作物。
IUCN classified it as "endangered" — two steps from extinction in the wild — because its habitat is being destroyed by slash-and-burn farming.
世界野生动物基金(前身为世界自然基金会)表示对这次峰会的成功率持乐观态度，但也警告其失败将会导致亚洲大片区域的老虎灭绝。
The WWF (formerly the World Wide Fund for Nature) says it is optimistic about the summit's chances of success, but warns that failure will lead to the extinction of the tiger across much of Asia.
这样的形势比较严峻，因为每一种语言的灭绝都意味着世界失去了一方无可替代的文化。
That's a perilous state of affairs.With the death of a language, the planet loses an irreplaceable cultural phenomenon.
今天，夏威夷是世界上最热门的避暑胜地，因为她受威胁和濒临灭绝的物种。
Today, Hawaii is the world's hottest hot spot for threatened and endangered species.
我已经能理智地去理解那些蓝鲸捕杀者――在仅仅四十年时间里我们几乎要灭绝了这个世界现存最大型的生物――而且现在我由衷地体会到了这点。
I had come to understand the blue whale slaughter intellectually—that in just four decades we nearly extinguished the largest creature ever to live—and now I grasped it viscerally.
大猩猩的四个亚种已经有三种被列为极度濒危，而第四种也已经上了世界自然保护联盟（IUCN）发布的濒于灭绝物种红色名单。
Three of the four gorilla subspecies are already considered critically endangered, and the fourth is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
不幸的是，世界各地的青蛙都在遭受灭绝的厄运，或许通过此次破译基因密码，我们能赶在它们灭绝之前做点什么，挽救这种稀有生物。
Unfortunately, frogs the world over are suffering a mass extinction. Perhaps something in the newly cracked genetic code can help save them before they croak.
揭秘这些灭绝很久的生物，可能在当今世界也具有实际意义。
Unlocking the secret lives of long-dead organisms may have practical implications in today's world, too.
世界上植物遗传物质的四分之三已经灭绝，大部分是因为栖息地破坏，粮农组织的帕斯夸莱说，而且每天有更多的正在消失。
Three-quarters of all the world's plant genetic material may have gone already, mostly by habitat destruction, says Pasquale Steduto of the FAO, and more is going every day.
据称世界上有100个物种已经灭绝，这项于上个月正式开始的考察，总的目的是验证是否这些物种实际上依然存活着。
The expeditions, formally launched last month, collectively aim to find out whether 100 species thought extinct are in fact still alive.
科学家最近发现了世界上数量最多的棱皮龟群体，这无疑唤起了一些信心，或许这种巨型动物并不像以前所认为的那样濒临灭绝。
The world's largest colony of leatherback sea turtles has been identified by scientists, raising hopes that the giant creature may not be as endangered as previously thought.
世界自然保护联盟还调查了3 120种淡水鱼，比去年多调查了510种，并发现其中1 147种面临灭绝的威胁。
IUCN also surveyed 3, 120 freshwater fishes, up 510 species from last year, and found 1, 147 of them threatened with extinction.
丹顶鹤是世界上濒临灭绝的物种之一。
Red-crowned cranes are one of the world's most endangered species.
在濒临灭绝的微型蛙世界，古巴发现的一种体型则更小。
It is beat out in the distinction of world's smallest frog by a slightly smaller frog found in Cuba.
世界上最后一只雄性的纯种哥伦比亚盆地侏儒兔最近不幸死亡。这致使美国在实施一个旨在试图拯救这种濒危物种免于灭绝的圈养繁殖计划的过程中，仅有两只纯种的雌性侏儒兔尚存。
The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered species from extinction.
世界上最后一只雄性的纯种哥伦比亚盆地侏儒兔最近不幸死亡。这致使美国在实施一个旨在试图拯救这种濒危物种免于灭绝的圈养繁殖计划的过程中，仅有两只纯种的雌性侏儒兔尚存。
The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered species from extinction.
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