这些饱受被火灾、干旱和沙尘暴侵扰的澳大利亚沼泽，只需要两年时间就可以完全恢复

作者：Andy Corbley

出处：goodnewsnetwork

译者：Tom Wang

2019 年，澳大利亚的麦格理河遭遇干旱，大火席卷了沼泽地，即便是消防员也无能为力。

但令人难以置信的是，仅仅两年后，这片土地看起来好像什么都没发生过。充足的降雨意味着河流再次开始流淌，它们穿过受国际保护的麦格理沼泽，大坝后面的水库已超过 100%。

Macquarie Marshes 的恢复不仅对国家重要，对世界也很重要，因为它们被列入清单根据 RAMSAR 公约对具有国际重要性的湿地。

在干旱、火灾和沙尘暴之后进行的一次空中调查，在近 60,000 英亩的保护区内仅仅发现了两只黑雁，这篇保护区占沼泽总面积的 12%。

这是自 1960 年代在麦觉理河上建造大坝以来，布伦东大坝水库第一次干涸。现在官员们表示，他们已经对基础设施进行了重大改进，以确保这种双重打击不会再次使火灾响应瘫痪。

悉尼新南威尔士大学 2021 年的水鸟调查发现，大部分鸟类生命正在回归，包括喜鹊、绿燕、草颈朱鹭、中型白鹭、红褐色夜鹭、皇家琵鹭以及其他鸭子和水禽.

“能够飞越沼泽真是太好了，因为你到处都能看到这种水、生物多样性和大量的水鸟，”理查德·金斯福德教授告诉澳大利亚广播公司新闻。

从事这项调查已有 30 年的金斯福德表示，2019 年是他记忆中最糟糕的一年。

麦格理沼泽从灰烬中恢复的另一原因是完成了一项耗资数百万美元的木板路项目，该项目允许游客进入更多的湿地，其中大部分位于私人土地上，市长米尔顿·奎格利，附近城镇沃伦的一位发言人表示，这将极大地促进那些摆脱 COVID-19 封锁的人。

“我们社区内外的每个人都更容易接触到它，”他说。 “很多人都想想从很远的地方过来看看。”

原文：

In 2019, drought choked off the Macquarie River in Australia, and fires swept through the marshes which it fed and left firefighters helpless to intervene.

Unbelievably though, just two years later and the land looks as if nothing happened. Plentiful rains mean the river is back to lazily meandering through the internationally protected Macquarie Marshes, and the reservoir behind the dam is more than 100% full.

A reminder to us all of nature’s resilience, and welcome news for those in the U.S. who hear of the devastating fire seasons in Australia, the recovery of the Macquarie Marshes is important not only for the country, but to the world, as they are listed under the RAMSAR Convention for wetlands of international importance.

An aerial survey following the drought, the fires, and then the dust storms, found two black geese across the nearly 60,000 acre reserve, a mere 12% of the total acreage of the marshes, tens of thousands of which had been completely scorched.

It was the first time the Burrendong Dam reservoir had ever run dry since the dam was built on the Macquarie river in the 1960s. Now officials say they have made major infrastructure improvements to ensure this kind of double-whammy can’t paralyze fire response ever again.

The 2021 waterbird survey by the University of New South Wales in Sydney found that most of the bird life was returning, including magpie geese, green teal, straw-necked ibis, intermediate egret, rufous night heron, royal spoonbill, and other ducks and waterfowl.

“It’s just so great to be able to fly over the marshes because you see this water everywhere and biodiversity and lots of water birds,” Professor Richard Kingsford told ABC News Australia.

Kingsford, who had been doing the survey for 30 years, said 2019 was the single worst year he can remember.

Another part of the Macquarie Marshes’ rise from the ashes is the completion of a multi-million dollar boardwalk project that allows visitors to access far more of the wetlands, much of which is set on privately-owned land, which Milton Quigley, the mayor of the nearby town of Warren, says will be a big boost to those coming out of COVID-19 lockdowns.

“It’s so much more accessible to everyone in our community and outside,” he said. “There’s people wanting to come and look from a long way away.”

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