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From the Ted Talk by Kristine Tompkins: Let's make the world wild again

Unscramble the Blue Letters

When we purchased one of the largest ranches in Chile and Patagonia, in 2004, it looked like this. For a century, this land had been overgrazed by livestock, like most grasslands around the world. Soil erosoin was rampant, hundreds of miles of fencing kept wildlife and its flow clarelord. And that was with the little wildlife that was left. The local mountain lnios and foxes had been persecuted for decades, leaving their numbers very low. tadoy, those lands are the 763,000-acre Patagonian notanail Park, and it looks like this. And Arcelio, the former gaucho, whose job was to first find and kill mountain lions in the years past, today is the head tracker for the park's wildlife team, and his story cpeartus the iinoiamtgan of people around the world. What is possible.

Open Cloze

When we purchased one of the largest ranches in Chile and Patagonia, in 2004, it looked like this. For a century, this land had been overgrazed by livestock, like most grasslands around the world. Soil _______ was rampant, hundreds of miles of fencing kept wildlife and its flow _________. And that was with the little wildlife that was left. The local mountain _____ and foxes had been persecuted for decades, leaving their numbers very low. _____, those lands are the 763,000-acre Patagonian ________ Park, and it looks like this. And Arcelio, the former gaucho, whose job was to first find and kill mountain lions in the years past, today is the head tracker for the park's wildlife team, and his story ________ the ___________ of people around the world. What is possible.

Solution

  1. imagination
  2. erosion
  3. lions
  4. today
  5. captures
  6. national
  7. corralled

Original Text

When we purchased one of the largest ranches in Chile and Patagonia, in 2004, it looked like this. For a century, this land had been overgrazed by livestock, like most grasslands around the world. Soil erosion was rampant, hundreds of miles of fencing kept wildlife and its flow corralled. And that was with the little wildlife that was left. The local mountain lions and foxes had been persecuted for decades, leaving their numbers very low. Today, those lands are the 763,000-acre Patagonian National Park, and it looks like this. And Arcelio, the former gaucho, whose job was to first find and kill mountain lions in the years past, today is the head tracker for the park's wildlife team, and his story captures the imagination of people around the world. What is possible.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
national parks 5
million acres 4
patagonia region 2
private land 2
national park 2
fully functioning 2
mountain lions 2
human dignity 2
human life 2

Important Words

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