纽约中央公园秘密花园沉寂80年后终重见天日

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.

占地1.6公顷的哈利特自然保护区，是每年吸引4300万游客的纽约中央公园里的3大林区之一。

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.

隐匿于中央公园东南方的秘密花园，距离繁华的设计师精品店和奢华的高层公寓只有数公尺之远。但数十年来它一直被栅栏给隔离开来，而且里头杂林丛生。

"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.

负责筹措中央公园75%年度预算的非营利机构─中央公园保护协会总裁及CEO伯朗斯基说，“这个园区是在30年代被中央公园管理委员会主席摩西下令关闭，当时他希望此地能成为一个鸟类保护区”。

"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.

他说，“遗憾的是，如果一个地区一旦被长期弃置，尤其在都会环境下，就会遭到外来物种或植物的入侵，并对本地原生物种造成威胁。”

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."

中央公园里大约有270种鸟。在哈利特自然保护区你可以看到很多种鸟，以及松鼠、浣熊、鸭子和小鸟在岩石上的小水涡里啄食。这儿你甚至可以看到土拨鼠，据伯朗斯基称这是“非常罕见的”。

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.

现在，这个保护区一周仅有三个下午的2点到5点接待游客。此外，七月和八月，每个星期天还有两小时开放时间。

But only 20 visitors will be allowed in at once to maintain the solitude and peace of the sanctuary.

不过，为了维持这个圣地的幽静与平和，每次最多只能接待20名游客。来源:双语新闻