A federal court has just handed down its decision in our case against the U.S. Navy and I wanted you to be the first to hear the great news. In a resounding victory for whales and other marine mammals, the court ruled that it will bar the Navy from deploying its high-intensity LFA sonar system across most of the world's oceans. 美國聯邦法庭對美國海軍做出裁決 撤銷高頻度LFA聲納系統在全世界各大洋的設置請求 The LFA (Low Frequency Active) sonar system would have blasted hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean habitat with noise so intense it can maim, deafen and even kill whales. In her historic ruling, Judge LaPorte agreed with NRDC that the sonar's booming noise could "irreparably harm" the marine environment and threaten the very survival of endangered populations of whales, sea turtles and other marine species. LFA (低頻率主動) 聲納系統在海洋中的影響範圍可達數百萬平方英哩 會嚴重損害海洋哺乳動物 海龜 以及其他種類海洋生物的聽力 甚至殺死他們 Judge LaPorte has ordered the Navy to begin negotiations with NRDC on a plan for safely testing the sonar system in a limited area. This is truly a banner day for the Earth's environment. The court has granted a life-saving reprieve to dozens of species of magnificent marine mammals. But its ruling also sends a message loud and clear to the White House that it is not above our nation's environmental laws. The Bush administration trampled all over those laws when it gave the Navy a blank check to operate the deadly LFA sonar system virtually anywhere in the world. 儘管NRDC和各界保育人士目前在法庭上獲得了初步的勝利 但是白宮已開出了空白支票給美國海軍 無視預算 要他們無論如何都要將LFA設置在世界的各個角落 以確保美國海軍在戰略上的絕對優勢 It's also a banner day for hundreds of thousands of NRDC members and activists like you. When we began this fight eight years ago, we were told that our chances of stopping the military's classified LFA program were slim to none. But that conventional wisdom seriously underestimated the collective power of a determined citizenry. 八年前NRDC和保育人士的抗爭行動罩始之時 民間團體獨力對抗美國海軍的機會實在是很渺茫 不過卻在八年後的今天讓他們見識到了小市民團結的力量 Your financial contributions and online activism fueled an NRDC legal strategy that prevailed, in the end, over the world's most powerful military establishment. There is no finer example of democracy in action. The fight to protect our oceans against high-intensity sonar is not over. The Navy could appeal the court's ruling. And right now the Bush administration is trying to get exemptions for the Navy from some of the very environmental laws NRDC used to block deployment of the LFA system. With your help, NRDC will do everything it can to ensure that these efforts do not succeed. 面對全世界最強勢的美國海軍 保育人士與軍事強權的戰爭才正要開始 現在小布希政府正試著為美國海軍尋求法律上的免責權 以開放LFA系統的使用 But all that lies ahead. For today, at least, we've won a significant victory, one worth savoring and celebrating. On behalf of our entire legal team, I want to thank you for coming to the defense of marine mammals around the world. 大家一起為海洋加油 =) -- Think, talk, feel. And life will be different. --

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