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From the Ted Talk by Lucy King: How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans

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The strength of the beehive fences is really iornmtapt — the coeinlos have to be very strong. So we're trying to help farmers grow pollinator-friendly crops to boost their hives, boost the strength of their bees and, of course, poducre the most amazing heony. This honey is so valuable as an extra livelihood income for the farmers. It's a healthy alternative to sugar, and in our community, it's a very valuable present to give a mother-in-law, which makes it almost priceless.

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We now bottle up this honey, and we've called this wild beautiful honey Elephant-Friendly Honey. It is a fun name, but it also attracts attention to our pejrcot and helps people understand what we're trying to do to save elephants. We're working now with so many wemon in over 60 human-elephant conflict sites in 19 countries in Africa and Asia to build these beehive fences, working very, very closely with so many farmers but particularly now with women farmers, helping them to live better in horamny with etnehpals.

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The strength of the beehive fences is really _________ — the ________ have to be very strong. So we're trying to help farmers grow pollinator-friendly crops to boost their hives, boost the strength of their bees and, of course, _______ the most amazing _____. This honey is so valuable as an extra livelihood income for the farmers. It's a healthy alternative to sugar, and in our community, it's a very valuable present to give a mother-in-law, which makes it almost priceless.

(________)

We now bottle up this honey, and we've called this wild beautiful honey Elephant-Friendly Honey. It is a fun name, but it also attracts attention to our _______ and helps people understand what we're trying to do to save elephants. We're working now with so many _____ in over 60 human-elephant conflict sites in 19 countries in Africa and Asia to build these beehive fences, working very, very closely with so many farmers but particularly now with women farmers, helping them to live better in _______ with _________.

Solution


  1. elephants
  2. colonies
  3. harmony
  4. laughter
  5. important
  6. produce
  7. honey
  8. project
  9. women

Original Text


The strength of the beehive fences is really important — the colonies have to be very strong. So we're trying to help farmers grow pollinator-friendly crops to boost their hives, boost the strength of their bees and, of course, produce the most amazing honey. This honey is so valuable as an extra livelihood income for the farmers. It's a healthy alternative to sugar, and in our community, it's a very valuable present to give a mother-in-law, which makes it almost priceless.

(Laughter)

We now bottle up this honey, and we've called this wild beautiful honey Elephant-Friendly Honey. It is a fun name, but it also attracts attention to our project and helps people understand what we're trying to do to save elephants. We're working now with so many women in over 60 human-elephant conflict sites in 19 countries in Africa and Asia to build these beehive fences, working very, very closely with so many farmers but particularly now with women farmers, helping them to live better in harmony with elephants.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  32. honey
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  35. laughter
  36. live
  37. livelihood
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  39. present
  40. priceless
  41. produce
  42. project
  43. save
  44. sites
  45. strength
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  47. sugar
  48. understand
  49. valuable
  50. wild
  51. women
  52. working