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From the Ted Talk by Iseult Gillespie: The largest river on Earth is actually in the sky

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


The northwest of the Peruvian Amazon is the territory of the Wampís Nation, a community of over 15,000 people who manage over 130,000 ______ kilometers of land. These __________ people have _____ in the rainforest for thousands of years, practicing sustainable hunting, fishing, and agriculture.

For the Wampís, protecting the __________ has long meant ________ invaders. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, Wampís people ________ and expelled the Incas and later the _______ colonists who exploited the rainforest. Today, the Wampís Nation are still battling extractive industries— and the policies that ________ them. For instance, since the 1960s, the ________ __________ has been licensing the Wampís’ territory to corporations for gold mining and oil extraction. These activities poison the rivers, clear thousands of trees, and threaten the Wampís way of life.

Solution


  1. square
  2. government
  3. peruvian
  4. rainforest
  5. sanction
  6. spanish
  7. indigenous
  8. resisted
  9. fighting
  10. lived

Original Text


The northwest of the Peruvian Amazon is the territory of the Wampís Nation, a community of over 15,000 people who manage over 130,000 square kilometers of land. These Indigenous people have lived in the rainforest for thousands of years, practicing sustainable hunting, fishing, and agriculture.

For the Wampís, protecting the rainforest has long meant fighting invaders. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, Wampís people resisted and expelled the Incas and later the Spanish colonists who exploited the rainforest. Today, the Wampís Nation are still battling extractive industries— and the policies that sanction them. For instance, since the 1960s, the Peruvian government has been licensing the Wampís’ territory to corporations for gold mining and oil extraction. These activities poison the rivers, clear thousands of trees, and threaten the Wampís way of life.

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