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.