Is the music really going to stop the extinctions? No, it's not.

音乐真地能助力阻止生物灭绝吗？不，不能。

But we are facing the prospect of both local and regional extinctions within decades.

在数十年之内。

Now researchers say it's the fastest mass extinction known.

现今研究人员们称这是迄今为止发生最快的灭绝事件。

One million species are at risk of extinction.

百万个物种面临灭绝的危险。

The only way you get a global mass extinction like this is an atmospheric effect.

只有大气效应才能导致这种全球性大规模灭绝事件。"

They have lived on Earth for 600 million years and have even survived five mass extinctions.

它们已经在地球上生活了 6 亿年，甚至经历了五次大灭绝。

Australia has announced a ten-year plan to prevent further extinctions of the country's plants and animals.

澳大利亚宣布了一项十年计划，以防止该国动植物进一步灭绝。

This great rewilding could stop the sixth great extinction in its tracks.

如此大规模的“还野”或许可避免第六次大灭绝的发生。

And some of them outlived the Ice Age extinction.

其中一些物种在冰河时期的灭绝中幸存下来。

So what else would have triggered such large-scale extinctions?

那么还有其他的因素可以触发这种大规模的灭绝吗？

We are in the midst of a mass extinction.

我们正处在大灭绝之中。

What's very clear is the rate of extinctions is alarming.

很明显，物种灭绝的速度令人担忧。

This zoo's mission is to prevent animal extinction through conservation.

这个动物园的任务是通过保护动物来防止动物灭绝。

Today the species is on the brink of extinction.

如今，它已成为濒危物种。

Scientists estimated that there had been at least 5 mass extinctions in the last 540 million years.

科学家估计，在过去5。4亿年中，至少有5次大规模灭绝。

Humankind is not poised teetering on the edge of extinction.

人类并没有在灭绝的边缘摇摇欲坠。

It notes what researchers believe is an upcoming " … wave of new extinctions" .

报告指出，研究人员认为即将到来的是" … … 新一轮本土物种灭绝浪潮" 。

The find provides evidence that humans contributed to the sloths' extinction.

这一发现提供了证据，证明人类对地懒的灭绝负有责任。

The African elephant faces possible extinction on a local and a regional basis.

非洲象面临着局部和地区性的灭绝。

The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction.

但大部分的，成长缓慢的动物则成了狩猎的目标，并且很快被狩猎到灭绝。