Bill Laurance is a tropical ecologist at James Cook University in Australia.

比尔·劳伦斯是澳大利亚詹姆斯·库克大学的热带生态学家。

That's the topic of a recent letter Laurance and Meijaard published in the journal Current Biology.

这是劳伦斯与迈贾拉德最近发表在《当代生物学》期刊上的信件主题。

Laurance: The forests are just festooned with plants, animals, birds... everything's just chirping away.

劳伦斯：森林里长满了植物、动物、鸟类… … 一切都在叽叽喳喳地叫着。

That life- is on the brink, because Laurance says Indonesia has an incredible concentration of the world's endangered and critically endangered species.

这里的生命濒临灭绝，劳伦斯说，印度尼西亚集中了世界上许多的濒危物种与极度濒危物种。

It's ... Laurance: Sort of an incredible magical place, in one sense, but one that's greatly imperiled right now.

这是… … Laurance：从某种意义上说，这是一个令人难以置信的神奇地方，但现在却处于极大的危险之中。

Laurance: We were seeing colleagues and researchers we knew and respected being essentially booted out of Indonesia … Intagliata: Including Meijaard himself.

劳伦斯：我们看到我们认识并尊敬的同事和研究人员基本上被赶出了印度尼西亚… … 因塔利亚塔：包括梅贾德本人。