Helping forests flourish as valuable "carbon sinks" long into the future may require reducing their capacity to absorb carbon now.

要想让森林成为有价值的“碳汇”并一直持续到未来很长一段时间，就需要降低它们现在吸收碳的能力。

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The researchers say the long-term effects of the increased death rates are hard to predict. However, they say, there could be fewer forests in the future.

研究者们说很难预测死亡率不断递增的长期影响。但是，他们说，将来森林会越来越少。

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But their unsustainable logging destroys not only forests but also local creatures and the future prospects of the people who lived there.

但是对硬木的不可持续的开采不仅会毁灭森林和当地的生物，并且使住在这里的人民对未来的憧憬化为泡影。

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And many kelp forests now have a more secure future.

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The government subsequently commissioned an independent report - headed by the Bishop of Liverpool - into the future management of forests which concluded they were a national asset and should not be sold off.

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It says it will create a new public body that will hold in trust the nation's forests for future generations.

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"We'll be talking to all those who are passionate about our forests to decide how we will manage our forests for the future, " she added.

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