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English to Portuguese: The Forest Wins Detailed field: Environment & Ecology
Source text - English In the earlier years of its recent ecological upswing, changes in international markets—often for the worse for the economy—led to some of XXX’s gains in forested land. The collapse of beef exports in the 1980s, for example, provided the opportunity and impetus for large-scale reforestation and expansion of protected areas in the northwest of the country—a region that had been dominated by cattle ranching since colonial times—as well as for reduction of deforestation pressures along the Caribbean coast. But in other social contexts these international market changes could have led to increased poverty in XXX rather than ecological transformation. The democratic traditions and social progress of earlier decades—e.g., abolition of the army after the 1948 revolution and social spending close to 20 percent of GDP—provided the basis for support of environmental goals even as income from traditional agricultural exports such as coffee and beef declined.
An early policy contributing to reduced deforestation was the expansion, beginning in the early 1970s, of conservation programs such as national parks. This has led to 21 percent of the country’s forest now being in national parks and biological reserves, another 19 percent in forest reserves and wildlife refuges (many on private land), and an additional 10 percent in indigenous reserves. Some of the protected areas extend all the way from the Pacific coast through the mountain cloud forests and down to the Caribbean lowlands, encapsulating much of the range of biological diversity found in tropical habitats.
Translation - Portuguese Nos primeiros anos de sua recente recuperação ecológica, as mudanças nos mercados internacionais – geralmente para pior no tocante à economia – propiciaram alguns dos ganhos de XXX em áreas florestais. O colapso das exportações de carne bovina na década de 1980, por exemplo, criou a oportunidade e o incentivo ao reflorestamento em grande escala e à expansão de áreas protegidas no nordeste do país – uma região que havia sido dominada pela pecuária desde o período colonial – bem como à redução das pressões pelo desmatamento ao longo da costa do Caribe. Mas em outros contextos sociais essas mudanças no mercado internacional poderiam ter levado ao aumento da pobreza em XXX em vez da transformação ecológica. As tradições democráticas e o progresso social de décadas anteriores – como por exemplo, a abolição do exército após a revolução de 1948 e os gastos sociais de quase 20% do PIB – criaram a base para o apoio às metas ambientais, mesmo com a queda da receita oriunda das exportações agrícolas tradicionais, tais como café e carne bovina.
Uma política inicial que contribuiu para a redução do desmatamento foi a expansão de programas de conservação como parques nacionais, a partir do início da década de 1970. Isso fez com que 21% das florestas do país estejam agora em parques nacionais e reservas biológicas, outros 19% em reservas florestais e áreas de preservação da vida selvagem (muitas em terras particulares) e outros 10% em terras indígenas. Algumas das áreas protegidas estendem-se desde a costa do Pacífico, passam pelas florestas nubladas das montanhas e descem até as terras baixas do Caribe, englobando grande parte da faixa de diversidade biológica encontrada nos habitats tropicais.
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Years of experience: 26. Registered at ProZ.com: May 2000. Became a member: Mar 2010.
I was born in Rio de Janeiro where I still live. After several years as an English tutor, a became a freelance translator and editor, now with about 20 years of experience in Economics, Marketing, Market Research, General Business, Medicine (general) and Information Technology.
I usually work with SDL Trados Studio, but I can learn other tools, if necessary. I'm always open to new challenges, by the way, I like new challenges.
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