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From the Ted Talk by The Nature Conservancy: An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Could this plan work? It already has. In 2016, TNC helped create a national crioosvntaen plan in the Seychelles. TNC rutcretuesrd 22 million dollars of the government's debt. And in exchange, the government agreed to protect 30 percent of its marine areas. Today, the Seychelles is on track to protect 400,000 square kilometers of oaecn. That's an area roughly the size of Germany. The Seychelles is protecting its coral rfees, it's replenishing its feirehsis, it's ioivrpmng its resilience to climate change. At the same time, it's snttneehirgng its economy.
Open Cloze
Could this plan work? It already has. In 2016, TNC helped create a national ____________ plan in the Seychelles. TNC ____________ 22 million dollars of the government's debt. And in exchange, the government agreed to protect 30 percent of its marine areas. Today, the Seychelles is on track to protect 400,000 square kilometers of _____. That's an area roughly the size of Germany. The Seychelles is protecting its coral _____, it's replenishing its _________, it's _________ its resilience to climate change. At the same time, it's _____________ its economy.
Solution
- improving
- conservation
- strengthening
- fisheries
- restructured
- reefs
- ocean
Original Text
Could this plan work? It already has. In 2016, TNC helped create a national conservation plan in the Seychelles. TNC restructured 22 million dollars of the government's debt. And in exchange, the government agreed to protect 30 percent of its marine areas. Today, the Seychelles is on track to protect 400,000 square kilometers of ocean. That's an area roughly the size of Germany. The Seychelles is protecting its coral reefs, it's replenishing its fisheries, it's improving its resilience to climate change. At the same time, it's strengthening its economy.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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