紐約中央公園沉寂80年祕密花園重見天日
Eighty years after it was shut off to the world, New York has reopened a secret woodland sanctuary a stone's throw from Fifth Avenue, just in time for summer.
在對外界關閉80年之後，紐約近日重新開放了一座距離第五大道僅幾步之遙的神祕園區，而且正好趕上夏季來臨。The 1.6-hectare Hallett Nature Sanctuary is one of three areas of woodland in Central Park, the huge expanse of nature in the Big Apple visited each year by an astonishing 43 million people.
佔地1.6公頃的哈利特自然保護區，是每年能夠帶來驚人的4300萬遊客的紐約中央公園裏的3大林區之一。The little sanctuary is hidden away at the southeastern end of the park, just meters from bustling designer boutiques and luxury high-rise apartment blocks. For decades it was fenced off and allowed to overrun.
這一小園區隱匿於中央公園的東南方，距離繁華的設計師精品店和奢華的高層公寓只有數米之遠。但數十年來它一直被柵欄給隔離開來，而且雜林叢生。
"It was closed by the park commissioner Robert Moses in the '30s and Robert Moses thought it would become a bird sanctuary," said Doug Blonsky, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy, a non-profit organization that raises 75 percent of the park's annual budget.
負責籌措中央公園75%年度預算的非營利機構--中央公園保護協會總裁及CEO道格·伯朗斯基表示：“這個園區是在30年代被中央公園管理委員會主席羅伯特·摩西下令關閉的，當時他希望此地能成爲一個鳥類保護區。”"Unfortunately what happens, particularly in an urban environment, if you leave an area closed for a long time, invasive species or plant material take over, forcing out the natives," he said.
他說，“遺憾的是，如果一個地區一旦被長期棄置，尤其在城市環境中，就會遭到外來物種或植物的入侵，並對本地原生物種造成威脅。”There are around 270 species of bird in Central Park. You can see many of them in the Hallett sanctuary, along with squirrels, racoons, ducks and birds pecking at puddles on the rocks. There is even a woodchuck which Blonsky says "is very unusual."
中央公園裏大約有270種鳥類。在哈利特自然保護區你可以看到其中很多種，以及松鼠、浣熊、鴨子和小鳥在岩石上的小水渦裏啄食。你甚至可以看到土撥鼠，而伯朗斯基稱這是“非常罕見的”。For now, the sanctuary is open only three afternoons a week from 2 pm to 5 pm. In July and August it will also be open for two hours on Sunday. But only 20 visitors will be allowed in at once to maintain the solitude and peace of the sanctuary.
現在，這個保護區每週僅在三個下午的2點到5點接待遊客。在七月和八月，每週日還會開放兩個小時。不過，爲了維持這個聖地的幽靜與平和，每次開放最多隻能接待20名遊客。
