President to save Amazon – level 2
04-11-2022 15:00
On Sunday, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s elections, and he became the new president. From 2003 to 2010, he was the previous president, and during that time, he lowered deforestation in the Amazon rainforest by 70%.
In 2019, the situation changed when Jair Bolsonaro became the president. Since that time, deforestation reached the highest levels in the last 15 years. In protest, Norway and Germany stopped its financial help to Brazil, which could protect the Amazon. Lula said that he wanted to protect the Amazon and focus on sustainable farming.
The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and many people call it the Earth’s lungs. The rainforest is very important because it lowers carbon emissions and global warming.
Difficult words: deforestation (the removal of trees in a large area), sustainable farming (farms which have little negative impact on the natural world), carbon emission (gases which planes, cars and factories make, and they hurt the natural world).
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