然而，在接管看似被兼并的部委上，尤其是在森林砍伐速度加快的时候，维亚纳先生深感紧张不安，这也是可以理解的。

But Mr Viana is understandably nervous about taking over a ministry that appears to have been sidelined, particularly at a time when the rate of deforestation has speeded up.

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西伯利亚的森林正以惊人的速度被砍伐。

Siberia's forests are being logged at an incredible rate.

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数十年的砍伐、采矿以及刀耕火种的耕作方法破坏了马达加斯加90%的森林，尽管其速度在过去二十年内有所放缓。

Decades of logging, mining and slash-and-burn farming have destroyed 90% of Madagascar's forests, though the rate has slowed in the past two decades.

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