肯尼亚政府与一组捐助方签署了一项价值1.6亿美元的保护计划，旨在保护地球上一些最复杂、受干扰最少的17.3万平方公里（1730万公顷）自然环境。
Kenya's government and a group of donors have signed a $160 million conservation programme aimed at protecting 173,000 square km (17.3 million hectares) of some of the most complex and least disturbed natural environments on Earth.
“Thamani Asili”倡议在斯瓦希里语中意为“自然的价值”，将重点关注从大裂谷到马赛马拉的关键生物多样性热点地区，这些地区栖息着数千头大象、犀牛、狮子及其他物种。
The Thamani Asili initiative, which means "value of nature" in Kiswahili, will focus on key biodiversity hotspots from the Great Rift Valley to the Maasai Mara which are home to thousands of elephants, rhinos, lions and other species.
周三公布的细节显示，该计划将在未来10年内，结合来自数十位捐助方的8000万美元资金——其中包括沃尔顿家族和卡吉尔家族的亿万富翁继承人——以及肯尼亚政府提供的同等数额资金。
Details on Wednesday showed it will combine $80 million from dozens of donors including billionaire heirs of the Walton and Cargill families, with a similar amount from the Kenyan government over the next 10 years.
这笔资金旨在利用“永久性项目融资”（PFP）模式，为新的保护区提供资金，并改善部分现有保护区的管理，该模式将资金拨付与关键政府政策变革挂钩。
The money aims to fund new conservation areas and improve management of some existing ones using a "Project Finance for Permanence" (PFP) model, which binds funding to key government policy changes.
肯尼亚旅游与野生动物部内阁秘书丽贝卡·米亚诺表示，该计划将既保护该国野生动物，又帮助与这些景观共存的农民和社区。
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife, Rebecca Miano, said it would both protect the country's wildlife and help farmers and communities that share the landscapes.
联合国环境规划署最近的一份报告引用了政府过往的估算，称肯尼亚约42%的国内生产总值（GDP）和70%的就业以某种形式依赖于自然。
A recent UN Environment Programme report cited past government estimates that around 42% of Kenya's GDP and 70% of employment in the country depends on nature in one form or another.
肯尼亚的环保资质近几周被推上风口浪尖，此前总统威廉·鲁托和非洲首富阿利科·丹格特为该国沿海建设的一座耗资160亿美元的新炼油厂举行了奠基仪式。
Kenya's environmental credentials have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks after President William Ruto and Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, broke ground on a new $16 billion dollar oil refinery being built on the country's coast.
PFP模式正日益流行。巴西和加蓬去年均宣布了类似协议，纳米比亚和博茨瓦纳也有类似协议在酝酿中。
The PFP model is gaining popularity. Brazil and Gabon both announced similar agreements last year, while others are in the works in both Namibia and Botswana.
大自然保护协会的露丝·马沙协助制定了该计划，她表示该计划将最初聚焦于四个关键地区。
Ruth Masha at The Nature Conservancy, which helped put together the plan, said it would initially focus on four key regions.
其中的一个地区是察沃（Tsavo），这里拥有该国最大的国家公园，以及全国40%的大象和20%的极度濒危的黑犀牛。另一个位于南部、与坦桑尼亚接壤的地区包括马赛马拉（Maasai Mara）国家保护区，该保护区与塞伦盖蒂（Serengeti）自然保护区相连。
One of them, Tsavo, is home to the country's largest national parks, 40% of its elephants and 20% of its critically endangered black rhinos. Another in the south along the border with Tanzania includes the Maasai Mara national reserve and connects into the Serengeti.
这一举措也有助于肯尼亚政府更接近其全球目标——即到2030年保护30%的陆地和海洋区域用于自然保护。根据TNC（大自然保护协会）的估计，肯尼亚目前仅实现了约20%至23%的保护目标。
It is also set to get the government closer to the global target to protect 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030. TNC estimates Kenya is currently at around 20%-23%.
“目前还存在较大的差距，但这一差距有望被逐步缩小，”TNC的PFP项目负责人瑞安·比德韦尔（Ryan Bidwell）表示。
"There is a substantial gap that would be largely closed," the head of TNC's PFP programme, Ryan Bidwell, said.