Vol.257 A Vision Faces an Environmental Test

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題名: A Vision Faces an Environmental Test

記者: By CORNELIA DEAN

発行日: November 24, 2009

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24miches.html

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1 It is far from an airport, the roads are bad, electricity is erratic,
drinking water is contaminated, the beach in town is littered and the
rivers are clogged with an invasive weed or plagued by farming runoff
dangerous to the offshore reef and fish.

2 A team of conservation biologists and other researchers from
Columbia University.

3 The participants envision a small-scale, low-impact ecotourism that
will stay in local hands.

4 Miches, with 9000 people, is located in a basin ringed by mountains
to the south and whose streams and rivers drain onto the beaches.

5 It was originally thought of as a three-to-five-year project but
now it is estimated that it will take a decade or more.