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翻译练习第5期 本文摘自今日美国报news/world/story版，是三小时之前刚刚发表的文章！红色句子为今天的翻译练习，大家加油！100 Amazon birds risk extinction, group says The list of Amazon bird species facing danger of extinction has risen sharply because their rainforest habitat is being slashed to make room for cattle ranching and agriculture, a conservationist group said Thursday.BirdLife International said that globally, 1,331 types of birds, or 13 percent of the worlds 10,064 total bird species, were listed as at risk on this years Red List of Threatened Species issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Thats up from the 1,253 species classified as threatened on last years list.The biggest jump came in the Amazon, where 100 Amazon avian species are now on the Red List, three of them in the highest-risk, critically endangered category. Only 10 were listed last year. The sudden jump is due to new models of future deforestation, which predicted accelerating destruction over the coming decade.We have previously underestimated the risk of extinction that many of Amazonias bird species are facing, said Leon Bennun, BirdLifes director of science, in a news release from the organization, which is an umbrella group representing conservation groups around the globe.Given the weakening of Brazilian forest law, the situation might be even worse than recent studies have predicted, he said, referring to Brazils new Forest Code, which loosens protections on the Amazon and is expected to take effect in the coming months. The Rio Branco antbird was catapulted to the critically endangered category this year from the near threatened category on the 2011 list, meaning the bird was of some concern but not considered at risk of extinction, to the top, critically endangered category this year. The antbirds relatively long, 10-12 year life-span makes it difficult for the little black bird with delicate white markings on its wings to adapt to habitat destruction, said BirdLife spokesman Martin Fowlie. 版友答案汇总 旧闻联播