The unique reptile has become an international conservation icon, due to it having no close relatives and being considered the turtle most adapted to life underwater in freshwater ponds and rivers.

这种独特的爬行动物早已成为了全球动物保护者们的圣像，因为它在分类上没有任何近亲，并且被视为最能适应在淡水池塘与河流中生活的龟类。

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It has fish in its seas, and hydro and geothermal power in its rivers and volcanoes (though only a small market for the resulting electricity).

但是在它的海域拥有丰富的鱼类，河流的水能，以及火山的地热能(尽管生产的电力只有很小的市场份额)。

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It's a superbly observed piece - and it can only have been made by somebody who has spent a long time watching reindeer swimming across rivers.

只有花费很长时间观察过驯鹿游水过河的人，才能创造出这件艺术品。

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But it has many different areas of interest to visitors who like to hike,camp,climb rocks, raft in rivers,fish and hunt.

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Talling has made it his task to bring the English capital's lost rivers back to the surface, metaphorically at least.

BBC: In search of London's lost rivers

Local lore has it that Buddha looked at this location between the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers with its ring of lushly forested mountains and predicted that a great city would someday be built here.

FORBES: Asian Beauty

The result, in a mountain range characterised by soft, crumbling rock which desperately needs strong roots to hold it together, has been an increasing number of landslides, which block roads, railways and even rivers.

ECONOMIST: From the archive