Name: 倫敦動物園被封鎖，孤獨，面臨著生存的鬥爭。 (Locked down and lonely, London Zoo faces fight to survive)
Uploaded: 2021-02-15T19:40:54.000Z
Duration: 1 min 52 s

London Zoo is normally one of the biggest tourist attractions in the U.

倫敦動物園通常是美國最大的旅遊景點之一。

It's one of the world's oldest zoos and research centers, has thousands of animals.

它是世界上最古老的動物園和研究中心之一，擁有數千只動物。

Charles Darwin has even walked its grounds, but by remaining closed, it's losing around £1 million or $1.4 million a month on its very existence may now be in peril.

查爾斯-達爾文甚至已經走過了它的理由，但通過保持關閉，它每月損失約100萬英鎊或140萬美元的存在可能現在處於危險之中。

Zookeepers, including team leader Kate Sanders, say they're becoming increasingly anxious.

包括團隊上司凱特-桑德斯在內的動物園管理員表示，他們正變得越來越焦慮。

I'm concerned that the zoo might not survive, you know, like we're losing so much money.

我擔心的是，動物園可能無法生存， 你知道，像我們失去了這麼多錢。

It costs a nearly a million pounds a month on without any visitors coming in.

在沒有任何遊客進來的情況下，一個月要花費近百萬英鎊。

We're not getting any revenue or very little.

我們沒有得到任何收入或很少。

You know, some people are being very generous and we're getting up to donations and things like that.

你知道，有些人是非常慷慨的，我們得到的捐款和類似的東西。

But it's not the same as having actual visitors here to support the zoo.

但這不等於有真正的遊客在這裡支持動物園。

Lockdowns meant the zoo was closed for 18 weeks in 2020 wiping out ticket sales.

鎖定意味著動物園在2020年關閉18周，消滅了門票銷售。

The current enforced closure will blow a $2.5 million hole in its budget, on top of the $20.8 million lost last year.

目前的強制關閉將使其預算在去年損失2080萬美元的基礎上再打一個250萬美元的洞。

Catherine England is its chief operating officer way can't furlough animals.

凱瑟琳-英格蘭是其首席運營官方式不能辭退動物。

And you can't furlough all of the all of the staff that look after the animals either.

你也不能把所有照顧動物的工作人員都辭退。

So, really, in terms of what we can take advantage off, there is very little.

所以，真的，從我們能利用的東西來看，很少。

The number of staff we can actually furlough and on duh not have working is only a handful, so it costs us a lot of money.

我們真正能辭退的員工和上杜沒有工作的員工只有寥寥數人，所以我們要花很多錢。

But at the same time, you know we're willing to do that.

但與此同時，你知道我們願意這樣做。

We have to do that for the sake of the animals that come first.

我們必須這樣做，為了動物的利益，首先。

 So for now, the monkeys pranks continued to go, UN observed penguins remained friendless on the future remains uncertain. 

所以目前，猴子們的惡作劇還在繼續，聯合國觀察到的企鵝們依舊沒有朋友，對未來仍有不確定性。