山雾中的古月桂林(Ancient laurel forest in mountain mist)

追溯到1500万年前，你会发现南欧的大部分地区都像这片梦幻森林——茂密的灌木丛中覆盖着干枯的月桂树。人类农业的进步使这些古老的森林消失了一两个世纪，但在一些温带大西洋岛屿上，特别是在非洲西北部由葡萄牙控制的马德拉岛上，仍然存在着斑块。
原文：
Go back 15 million years and you'll find most of Southern Europe looking like this fantasy forest – thick, scrubby underbrush canopied by wizened laurel trees. An epoch or two of human agricultural advances cleared those ancient woods, but patches persist on a few temperate Atlantic islands – especially here on Madeira, a Portuguese-held island off northwest Africa.
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