这个植树造林的战略是帮助战胜荒漠化的宏大尝试。中国大约有100万平方英里(约合260万平方千米)的土地为黄沙覆盖,占国土面积的四分之一。干旱、森林采伐、过度放牧等等问题威胁着另外11.5万平方英里的土地,引发的严重沙尘暴经常肆虐北京和敦煌等城市。很多科学家怀疑种树从长远来看是否能有很大作用。不过中国国家林业局表示,这一举措近年来使沙尘暴减少了20%,荒漠化土地减少了近5000平方英里。
Teh lives in Malaysia but works throughout Asia, documenting humans’ impact on the landscape. Over six days in May 2016, he photographed tree-planting schemes in the Gobi Desert in northern China. They seemed successful in places like Duolun County, some 220 miles north of Beijing, where the government has planted 2.6 million trees over the past 17 years. The place felt pastoral, almost lush. Teh had to stop his car on the side of the highway and hike several minutes over dunes just to see where the wind-blown grass ended and the sand began. “To be honest, it was hard to imagine it was ever a desert at all,” he says.
郑永仁住在马来西亚,但是工作在亚洲各地奔波,记录人类对地表的影响。在2016年5月份的6天中,他拍摄了中国北部戈壁沙漠的植树造林计划。在北京以北约220英里处的多伦县等地,植树造林计划似乎取得了成功,过去17年政府在那里植树260万棵。那个地方一派乡野风光,草木茂盛,他不得不在公路边上停下车,徒步走几分钟,翻过沙丘,看看在风中摇曳的草的尽头和沙漠开始的地方。他说:“老实讲,难以想象这里在过去是沙漠。”
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