已经在Temple东景缘展出两周的《热带雨林，绿色卫士—比利时国王利奥波德三世摄影展》，从10月15日起，将在比利时驻华使馆展出。报名观展方式在文后。关于展览的介绍，请阅读：展览开幕 | 长假不出京好去处：比利时国王利奥波德三世摄影展 Leopold III of Belgium Exhibition
今天的文章将更深入介绍摄影师利奥波德三世本人。他是国王，是摄影师，也是热带雨林的卫士。他曾多次坦言，如果能够选择自己的职业，他会成为一名植物学家或民族学家。
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作为比利时阿尔贝一世国王和伊丽莎白王后的长子，利奥波德三世一直对科学抱有浓厚的兴趣。他自幼表现出对大自然的深切热爱，尤其对热带雨林有着浓厚的兴趣。他从小就梦想着远方的国度，痴迷于探险家的故事，不厌其烦地研究地图，标记着那些他希望有朝一日能亲自探访的地方。
1920年，他跟着父母，到巴西进行了一次正式访问，亲身体验了热带森林的奇妙。他的探险梦想就此启航。利奥波德在圣保罗与他们会合，参观了专门研究蛇毒提取的布坦坦研究所。然而，真正让他深受启发的，是他在咖啡种植园的几天，这是他首次接触令他痴迷的热带雨林。
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Eldest son of King Albert the First and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, Leopold III always had a keen interest in science. He also, very early on, demonstrated a profound love for nature and a special attraction for tropical forests. As a child, he dreamt of faraway lands, devouring the accounts of explorers, tirelessly studying atlases to mark the places he wanted to visit one day.
That dream started to come true in 1920, when his parents made an official trip to Brazil. Leopold joined them in Sao Paulo, where he visited the Butantan Institute which specialised in the extraction of snakes’ venom. But it is above all the few days he spent on a coffee fazenda that enabled him to discover the tropical forest, whose mysteries fascinated him.
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1925年，他在刚果深入考察了七个月，探索了地球上第二大的热带雨林。通过掌握基本的斯瓦希里语，他能够与当地和原住民交流，学习他们的文化以及他们对环境的认知。
这位年轻的王储在1928年和1929年对印度尼西亚和马来西亚（当时称为荷属东印度群岛）的旅行中，继续观察热带雨林。随后，在1933年又一次对刚果的长期考察后，他在伦敦的皇家非洲学会发表了一篇在当时具有开创性意义的演讲，表达了他对人类对生态系统负面影响的深切担忧。他说：
“如果有一个议题超越了人类的视野，那无疑就是那些我们仅为暂时守护者、却要对未来世代负责的永恒财富的保护。
我们是否有权任意改变自然的状态，而不考虑基于我们目前对宇宙不完善的认知所能预见的后果？
我们可以原谅我们祖先因无知而犯下的错误，但我们的后代将不会为我们的过错找到任何借口。”
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Ramudu, the great primary lowland rainforest in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, 1971
“If there is one subject altogether transcending human horizons, it is undoubtedly the preservation of those everlasting possessions of which we are the temporary guardians responsible to future generations.
Have we any right arbitrarily to alter the natural condition of things, without taking into consideration the results which can be foreseen from our present imperfect knowledge of the universe?
We may excuse the faults committed in the past by our ancestors on account of their ignorance as to the consequences of their acts. But our successors will make no such excuse for us.”
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1951年退位后，利奥波德国王得以继续他的探险之旅。在20多年里，他探索了美洲、非洲和亚洲的24个地区，这些旅途常常由比利时的自然科学专家陪同。他同时也对摄影满怀热情，拍摄了数万张彩色和黑白照片，这些照片如今已成为极具价值的历史和科学文献。
1972年，他创立了一个基金会，旨在促进国家和国际层面上对自然的研究与保护。从1973年至1985年，利奥波德三世基金会组织了十余次大型探险活动，其中几次由他本人亲自领导。其中包括一次对伊里安查亚（新几内亚岛伊里安岛东经141°以西部分，现印度尼西亚一省）的国际探险和一次对安达曼群岛（孟加拉湾与缅甸海之间、十度海峡之北的一组岛屿，是印度的海外领地）的考察。1976年至1996年间，基金会广泛参与了在巴布亚新几内亚北海岸附近岛屿上建立和运营永久生物站的工作，旨在研究珊瑚、海洋动植物群。
After his abdication in 1951, King Leopold was able to resume his travels. In over 20 years, he explored 24 regions in the Americas, Africa and Asia often accompanied by Belgian experts in natural sciences. As he was also a keen photographer, he took tens of thousands of colour and black and white photographs which are now historical and scientific documents of great value.
In 1972, he created a foundation to promote the study and conservation of nature on a national and international level. From 1973 to 1985, The Leopold III Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation organised a dozen of big expeditions, several under the direction of its founder. Among those an international expedition in Irian Jaya and one in the Andaman Islands. Between 1976 and 1996, the foundation participated extensively in the creation and operation of permanent biological station on an island close to the north coast of Papua New-Guinea to study corals and marine fauna and flora.
在利奥波德国王基金会的支持下，科学家和学者们已经完成了300多次考察，撰写了600多篇科学论文。在国王的女儿、埃斯梅拉达公主（Princess Esmeralda）的领导下，基金会继续支持比利时研究人员在全球范围内的项目。
比利时王国公主殿下Esmeralda与她的父亲照片合影
利奥波德国王是环境保护以及尊重原住民权利、文化和传统的先驱。他曾说：“人类应意识到自己属于地球，尊重生物多样性，追求与自然资源的和谐与平衡利用。”
Thanks to the financial, material and moral support of the King Leopold Fund, more than 300 missions have been carried out and more than 600 scientific papers have been written to this day. Under the presidency of Princess Esmeralda the Foundation continues to support Belgian researchers’ projects around the world.
King Leopold was a pioneer of the protection of our environment and the respect of indigenous rights, culture and traditions. He said: “People, aware of their belonging to the earth, respectful of biodiversity, harmony and the balanced use of the natural resources of our planet”.
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10月15日至10月25日（工作日）
15th of October - 25th of October
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14:00-16:00
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比利时驻华大使馆（北京市朝阳区三里屯路6号）
Sanlitun Road 6, Chaoyang District, Beijing
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Indigenous from the Oyampi community in Alicoto, French Guyana, 1969
本次展览从利奥波德三世数以万计的照片中挑选了来自13个国家（巴西、哥伦比亚、委内瑞拉、苏里南、法属圭亚那、巴拿马、哥斯达黎加、尼加拉瓜、洪都拉斯、马来西亚、印度尼西亚、新几内亚和刚果民主共和国）的40张照片，每张照片都讲述了一个正在迅速消失的世界的故事，呼吁观众反思保护这些不可替代的环境的重要性。
For this exhibition, 40 (among tens of thousands of Leopold III's pitures）were selected from 13 countries (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Surinam, French Guiana, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo), and each photograph tells a story of a world that is rapidly disappearing, urging viewers to reflect on the importance of protecting these irreplaceable environments.
此次基金会与洪都拉斯驻华大使馆、比利时驻华大使馆合作呈现此次摄影展，旨在展示利奥波德三世国王的优秀摄影作品，并提高人们对雨林保护的迫切需求的认识。
Through this exhibition, the Foundation, together with the Embassy of Honduras and the Embassy of Belgium in China, aim to showcase King Leopold III’s remarkable work and to raise awareness about the pressing need for rainforest conservation.
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