With the efforts of China's government and its people, the rate of forest coverage in China has reached 96%, compared to 5% forty years ago, according to a recent report from the State Forestry and Grassland Administration.

据国家林业和草原局最近的一份报告显示，通过中国政府和人民的努力，与四十年前的5%相比，中国的森林覆盖率已经达到96%。

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The State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development both intervened, calling for an end to abusive exploitation of captive animals in zoos.

国家林业局与住房和城乡建设部都已经进行了干预，要求停止对动物园驯养动物进行虐待性开发利用。

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Note: Data of national total include the units directly under State Forestry Administration.

注：全国合计数包括国家林业局直属单位数据。

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But much of this is expected to be given to other agencies (the State Forestry Administration, for example, deals with stemming the spread of deserts) or to the local environmental-protection bureaus, which, being answerable to local governments, are crippled by conflicts of interest.

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The country's State Forestry Administration estimates that desertification affects 400 million Chinese, many of whom lose the ability to farm their land or graze their animals and join the ranks of the tens of millions of internal environmental refugees, who often migrate to the big cities in search of new homes and jobs.

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Last week, when news of the deaths of the 11 tigers was released, the State Forestry Administration sent a team to investigate and local officials established task forces to take over the zoo's management.

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