Slash-and-burn farming can be good for soils provided it doesn't completely burn all the vegetation, and leaves behind charred wood.

刀耕火种的耕作方式对土壤是有好处的，只要它不完全烧掉所有的植被，只留下烧焦的木头。

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IUCN classified it as "endangered" — two steps from extinction in the wild — because its habitat is being destroyed by slash-and-burn farming.

世界自然保护联盟把它列为“濒危”动物，在野外两步就能使它灭绝，即因为它的栖息地森林被砍伐和烧毁以用来种植农作物。

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Decades of logging, mining and slash-and-burn farming have destroyed 90% of Madagascar's forests, though the rate has slowed in the past two decades.

数十年的砍伐、采矿以及刀耕火种的耕作方法破坏了马达加斯加90%的森林，尽管其速度在过去二十年内有所放缓。

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But when I went to visit a recently-created forest reserve, in which slash-and-burn farming has been strictly banned, I didn't see too much evidence of locals being consulted.

BBC: Lemur