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From the Ted Talk by Patrícia Medici: The coolest animal you know nothing about ... and how we can save it

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And right now, 2015, we are expanding our work once again to the Brazilian Cerrado, the open grasslands and shrub forests in the central part of Brazil. Today this rigoen is the very epicenter of economic development in my country, where natural hbatait and wiilldfe putnilopoas are rapidly being eacetraidd by several different threats, including once again cattle ranching, large scguanare and soybean plantations, poaching, roadkill, just to name a few. And somehow, tprias are still there, which gives me a lot of hope. But I have to say that starting this new program in the Cerrado was a bit of a slap in the face. When you drvie around and you find dead tapirs along the highways and signs of tapirs wandering around in the middle of sugarcane plantations where they shouldn't be, and you talk to kids and they tell you that they know how tapir meat tastes because their families poach and eat them, it really breaks your hreat.

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And right now, 2015, we are expanding our work once again to the Brazilian Cerrado, the open grasslands and shrub forests in the central part of Brazil. Today this ______ is the very epicenter of economic development in my country, where natural _______ and ________ ___________ are rapidly being __________ by several different threats, including once again cattle ranching, large _________ and soybean plantations, poaching, roadkill, just to name a few. And somehow, ______ are still there, which gives me a lot of hope. But I have to say that starting this new program in the Cerrado was a bit of a slap in the face. When you _____ around and you find dead tapirs along the highways and signs of tapirs wandering around in the middle of sugarcane plantations where they shouldn't be, and you talk to kids and they tell you that they know how tapir meat tastes because their families poach and eat them, it really breaks your _____.

Solution


  1. habitat
  2. heart
  3. sugarcane
  4. populations
  5. region
  6. eradicated
  7. drive
  8. wildlife
  9. tapirs

Original Text


And right now, 2015, we are expanding our work once again to the Brazilian Cerrado, the open grasslands and shrub forests in the central part of Brazil. Today this region is the very epicenter of economic development in my country, where natural habitat and wildlife populations are rapidly being eradicated by several different threats, including once again cattle ranching, large sugarcane and soybean plantations, poaching, roadkill, just to name a few. And somehow, tapirs are still there, which gives me a lot of hope. But I have to say that starting this new program in the Cerrado was a bit of a slap in the face. When you drive around and you find dead tapirs along the highways and signs of tapirs wandering around in the middle of sugarcane plantations where they shouldn't be, and you talk to kids and they tell you that they know how tapir meat tastes because their families poach and eat them, it really breaks your heart.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
atlantic forest 4
south america 3
tropical forests 2
gps collars 2
eastern part 2
tapir conservation 2


Important Words


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