SDG 15-Oct.4

[SDG 15: Life on Land] 

Nature is critical to our survival: it provides us with our oxygen, regulates our weather patterns, produces our food, feed, and fiber. But human activity has altered almost 75 percent of the earth’s surface, squeezing wildlife and nature into an ever-smaller corner of the planet. 

The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever, affecting our economies, livelihoods, food security, health, and quality of life worldwide.

Deforestation and desertification – caused by human activities and climate change – pose major challenges to sustainable development and have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people.

- Forests are home to around 1.6 billion people and over 80% of all land species of animals, plants, and insects.

- As for biodiversity, of the 8,300 animal breeds, 8% are extinct and 22% are at risk of extinction.

Goal 15.3: By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

Goal 15.5: Take urgent action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, stop the loss of biodiversity.

Goal 15.C: Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species,

=> Write about Goal 15 in three sentences in 15 min. 

Tips Choose 1 sen from each section and modify it.

Put (v) after each verb and (adj) after each adjective

=> STT Read aloud 

Although nature provides our basic necessities like oxygen and food, human activities have created substantial impacts on the planet’s ecosystem, such as deforestation and desertification. 

8% of the animals are already extinct and over 20% are threatened of extinction. 

Urgent actions need to be taken to stop desertification and deforestation, restore degraded land and soil, and protect vulnerable species from poaching.