76 Unit 05 | Wild world Talking about cause and effect Add the missing prepositions to the phrases you can use to talk about cause and effect. LANGUAGE 18 Work in groups. Design a digital product of your choice to inform young people about an issue related to palm oil production. Start by researching an aspect you’re interested in and then decide how best to communicate the information. You could create: a fact sheet summarising the most important information on palm oil a social media post on avoiding products containing unsustainable palm oil a short video to raise awareness of palm oil in everyday products Add the final version to your learning portfolio. What animal or environmental organisations do you already know of? What kind of work do they do to raise people’s awareness and protect animals or places? Read the text about an animal rescue centre in Indonesia. Some words are missing. Complete the text by writing one word for each gap (1–11) in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. WRITING 19 LANGUAGE IN USE 20 a b 1 Deforestation in Indonesia is a direct result the demand for palm oil in the Western world. 2 Loss of rainforest leads a growing number of endangered species because it results loss of habitat. 3 a consequence this environmental destruction, orangutans are endangered. 4 Farming palm oil sustainably could have a positive effect nature in Indonesia. 2 death trap: Todesfalle 3 to relocate sb./sth.: jmdn./etw. umsiedeln Caring for our relatives We all know how vital trees are to the well-being of the environment. The deforestation of our planet is (0) major problems for many species that make the forest their home. Happily, there are some organisations which work hard every day to rescue animals in danger and (1) them from extinction. One of them is International Animal Rescue (IAR), which runs a programme to rescue orangutans in Indonesia. Orangutans spend the majority of their lives in the treetops in relative safety. However, as a (2) of the ‘slash and burn’ techniques in which the forests are cut and/or set on fire to make (3) for the planting of oil palms, the treetops become a death trap2. Confused and frightened, the orangutans either remain in the trees with the fires surrounding them (4) climb down to try to escape. In both cases, the animals are then often burned alive. As the forests are (5) , the surviving orangutans can’t get enough food and may take fruit and vegetables from farms or go into villages, where they can be captured or even killed. IAR’s team helps orangutans left homeless and relocates3 these (6) animals to safe areas of protected forest. Animals that can’t survive in the wild are (7) a permanent home at the centre. IAR also works to rescue and care (8) baby orangutans when their mothers have been killed or taken to be sold illegally as pets. Rescued baby orangutans of between the ages of two and four are Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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