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经过25年的时间,把国家森林建在废弃煤矿和采石场工地之上的决定已硕果累累。25年前,位于英格兰中部地区的莫伊拉、多尼索普和欧弗锡尔等村庄俯瞰着一派可怕的景象。这些居民区的周围是露天矿、废弃的粘土矿场、废石堆、废弃的采煤场、被污染的河道以及重工业留下的所有其他生态废墟。空气的味道令人不快,土地也被污染了。那里几乎没有一棵树,没有什么工作岗位,野生生物也很罕见。矿场关门后,居民离弃了这里,迁往伯明翰、德比和莱斯特等英格兰中部城市。前景看上去一片惨淡。
After 25 years, the decision to build a national forest on abandoned coal mines and quarry sites has been fruitful. Twenty-five years ago, the villages of Moira, Donostrop and Oversir, in central England, looked out over the terrible sight. Surrounding these neighborhoods are surface mines, abandoned clay mines, waste rock piles, abandoned coal mines, polluted river channels and all other ecological ruins left by heavy industry. The air tastes unpleasant and the land is contaminated. There is almost no one tree there, no jobs, wildlife is very rare. After the mine closed, residents left here and moved to central England such as Birmingham, Derby and Leicester. The outlook looks bleak