E118 英文朗读 | The protectors and promoters of Japan's National Parks

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Nature guide Shuhei Murakami leads tours for small groups in Canadian canoes on Lake Towada, in Towada-Hachimantai National Park.

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The protectors and promoters of Japan's National Parks

00:09①Shuhei Murakami remembers his first time in a stand of beech trees nearly two decades ago. 

00:18②He was in his twenties, deep in a forest, in Towada-Hachimantai National Park, northeastern Japan, and he was enchanted.

00:30③The trees' white-ish bark seemed to give off their own magical light. "The entire forest had this gentle feel to it," he said. 

00:42④Today Murakami, 41, works in Towada-Hachimantai as a nature guide at Kai, taking visitors in canoes around Lake Towada, the park's vast freshwater-filled caldera. 

00:58⑤He is no less in awe of the 211,000-acre (85,534-hectare) park's beech trees. 

01:09⑥He is one of the many people whose lives and livelihoods are intertwined with Japan's 34 national parks.

01:19⑦The people who live and work in the national parks double as caretakers and cultural custodians of these outdoor spaces.

01:29⑧This mix of the untamed and lived-on – and everything in between – is one of the distinguishing features of Japan's national parks. 

01:40⑨It might seem odd to anyone who is familiar with the undeveloped wilderness of, say, the U.S. national parks. 

01:49⑩But in Japan, nature isn't only thought of as untouched and untrammeled areas. 

01:57⑪"People in Japan grow up feeling close to nature. We don't think of nature as a separate place from where we spend our daily lives."

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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/paid-content-the-protectors-and-promoters-of-japans-national-parks