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General
English Level 5 V 3
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UNIT 02 The world
we live in TOPIC 04 Another point of view
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READING 01a Preserve
our forests
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Melinda Watson writes about how
she became passionate about the environment.
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I haven't always been a "greenie".
I grew up on a dairy farm, so I have always had some awareness
of the balance between human activity and nature. But it was
during a bushwalking trip ten years ago that I began to take
a strong interest in what we are doing to the natural world
around us.
It was a beautiful sunny day and I was walking through a magnificent
old forest, which was full of all kinds of animals and birds.
Around me, trees, which were hundreds of years old, reached
high into the sky. These trees protected thousands of other
plants that were growing there. The diversity of life was totally
amazing.
Suddenly, all that changed. I came out of the forest and in
front of me as far as I could see was nothing but blackened
earth. It was like another planet. There was no sound - no birds
singing, and no animals moving in the trees - nothing.
The forest, which had been home to all those birds, animals
and plants, was gone. It had all been chopped down and burnt.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
It was at that moment that I decided to spend the rest of my
life fighting to save our environment, especially our forests.
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