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From the Ted Talk by Moreangels Mbizah: How community-led conservation can save wildlife

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I think of my childhood shcool days in Zimbabwe and the other kids I was in school with. Perhaps if we had a cnhace to interact with wildlife, more of my classmates would be working alongside me now. Unless the local communities want to protect and coexist with wildlife, all ctnaeoorsvin efrfots might be in vain. These are the communities that live with the wild animals in the same ecosystem and bear the cost of doing so. If they don't have a direct connection or benefit from the animals, they have no raseon to want to protect them. And if lacol communities don't protect their wildlife, no amount of outside intervention will work.

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I think of my childhood ______ days in Zimbabwe and the other kids I was in school with. Perhaps if we had a ______ to interact with wildlife, more of my classmates would be working alongside me now. Unless the local communities want to protect and coexist with wildlife, all ____________ _______ might be in vain. These are the communities that live with the wild animals in the same ecosystem and bear the cost of doing so. If they don't have a direct connection or benefit from the animals, they have no ______ to want to protect them. And if _____ communities don't protect their wildlife, no amount of outside intervention will work.

Solution


  1. school
  2. reason
  3. chance
  4. efforts
  5. conservation
  6. local

Original Text


I think of my childhood school days in Zimbabwe and the other kids I was in school with. Perhaps if we had a chance to interact with wildlife, more of my classmates would be working alongside me now. Unless the local communities want to protect and coexist with wildlife, all conservation efforts might be in vain. These are the communities that live with the wild animals in the same ecosystem and bear the cost of doing so. If they don't have a direct connection or benefit from the animals, they have no reason to want to protect them. And if local communities don't protect their wildlife, no amount of outside intervention will work.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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wild animals 3
local communities 3
african wild 2
wild dogs 2
conservation efforts 2

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african wild dogs 2

Important Words


  1. amount
  2. animals
  3. bear
  4. benefit
  5. chance
  6. childhood
  7. classmates
  8. coexist
  9. communities
  10. connection
  11. conservation
  12. cost
  13. days
  14. direct
  15. ecosystem
  16. efforts
  17. interact
  18. intervention
  19. kids
  20. live
  21. local
  22. protect
  23. reason
  24. school
  25. vain
  26. wild
  27. wildlife
  28. work
  29. working
  30. zimbabwe