A spokesman for the environment ministry said: "we know what is happening in the Chaco but there's little we can do."
环境部发言人说：“我们对查科所发生的一切了如指掌，但我们却无能为力。”
Ignacio Rivas, a conservationist with the Paraguayan group Guyra, said: "the fate of the Chaco lies with these groups."
巴拉圭一位环保人士伊格·纳西奥·里瓦斯指出：“查科的命运掌握在这些共同体手里。”
The large Mennonite families and powerful co-operative farm groups have bought an estimated 2m hectares of land in the Chaco.
几户大的门诺教家庭和具备实力的合作农场在查科购买的土地超过200万公顷。
With an elevation more than 3,659 meters (12,000 feet) above mean sea level, the Altiplano is much higher than the Chaco to the east.
Altiplano海拔3，659m(12,000英尺)，比亚热带区高多了。
The Chaco, which stretches over nearly 240, 000 sq km, is similar topographically, and in places climatically, to the Australian outback.
查科的面积超过24万平方公里，其地形和有些地方的气候与澳大利亚内陆地区十分相似。
A second theory contends that the Chaco structures were used to store food supplies.
第二个理论认为查科建筑是用来储存食物的。
One theory holds that the Chaco structures were purely residential, with each housing hundreds of people.
一个理论认为这些巨屋是单纯用来居住的，每个可以容纳数百人。
Both groups are expanding aggressively. Their style of farming is totally unsuited to the fragile soils of the Chaco and will lead only to desertification and erosion.
这两大团体正以咄咄逼人的态势进行扩张，他们的耕种模式完全不符合查科脆弱的土壤条件，最终只会导致荒漠化和水土流失。
In particular, the Chaco houses appear strikingly similar to the large, well-known "apartment buildings" at Taos, New Mexico, in which many people have been living for centuries.
尤其值得一提的是，查科的这些建筑同新墨西哥陶斯镇著名的“寓所式建筑”非常相似。这些寓所式建筑供很多人居住了数个世纪。
During the 16th century, Spanish conquistadores tried to penetrate it but the vegetation, harsh climate, lack of water and indigenous tribes defeated them and the Chaco was largely ignored.
早在16世纪，西班牙征服者试图进入这片土地，但那里浓密的植被、恶劣的气候、饮用水的匮乏以及土著部落顽强的抗争，终于让他们落荒而逃，之后查科便被世人基本遗忘了。
During the 16th century, Spanish conquistadores tried to penetrate it but the vegetation, harsh climate, lack of water and indigenous tribes defeated them and the Chaco was largely ignored.
早在16世纪，西班牙征服者试图进入这片土地，但那里浓密的植被、恶劣的气候、饮用水的匮乏以及土著部落顽强的抗争，终于让他们落荒而逃，之后查科便被世人基本遗忘了。
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