07.02.27: Level 4; listening; Nūntiī Latīnī [6]

Ōrdō Global Forest Watch annuam dē statū silvārum tropicālium relātiōnem nūper dīvulgāvit. Annō proximō ārea silvārum maior quam Belgium dispāruit. Silvae maximam partem dēlentur, ut alimenta, sīcut carō bovīna, oleum palmārum, socolāta prōdūcantur. Investīgātōrēs praecipuē propter silvās pluviālēs sollicitī sunt. Plūrimae silvae nātūrālēs caesae sunt in Brasīliā. In ultimīs silvīs Brasiliēnsibus vīvunt aborīginēs, quī numquam cum hominibus occidentālibus cōnsuētūdinēs habuērunt et silvīs dēlētīs habitātiōnēs perdunt. Magnus est interitus silvārum etiam in Columbiā, Boliviā, Āfricā occidentālī. In Ghanā et Lītore Eburneō etiam propter aurifodīnās et cultūram cacaōnis silvae caeduntur.

[i] What annual report did the organisation recently publish?

[ii] How is the previous year’s disappearance of forest emphasised?

[iii] What three specific foodstuffs are being produced? (3)

[iv] What specific type of forest worries researchers?

[v] Where are most forests being cut down?

[vi]

[a] Who lives in these forests?

[b] With whom have they never had contact?

[c] What are they losing?

[vii] Which region of Africa is affected?

[viii]

[a] Apart from Ghana, which other African country is mentioned?

[b] What two reasons are causing the loss of forest in these countries? (2)

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[i] the state of tropical forests

[ii] an area larger than Belgium

[iii] beef (1); palm oil (1); chocolate

[iv] rainforests

[v] Brazil

[vi]

[a] aborigines (indigenous peoples)

[b] Westerners

[c] their homes

[vii] West Africa

[viii]

[a] Ivory Coast

[b] gold mining (1); cocoa cultivation (1)

The organisation Global Forest Watch recently published its annual report on the state of tropical forests. In the previous year (2018), an area of forest larger than Belgium disappeared. Forests are largely being destroyed so that food products such as beef, palm oil, and chocolate can be produced.

Researchers are especially concerned about the rainforests. The greatest number of natural forests have been cut down in Brazil. In the remaining forests of Brazil live indigenous peoples who have never had contact with Westerners, and, as the forests are destroyed, they lose their homes.

There is also extensive destruction of forests in Colombia, Bolivia, and West Africa. In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, forests are also being cut down because of gold mining and the cultivation of cocoa.