The Main Problem HabitatThere is a serious habitat problem because: After pollution or destruction, habitats take many years (sometimes hundreds or even thousands) to grow again. Pollution and destruction change the balance of nature. Each species in a habitat (for example, wood, jungle, marsh or forest) needs and helps the rest. If one animal, bird or insect disappears, all the others suffer, too. This is what's happening in the rainforests of South America, Africa and Asia. These are some of the world's oldest habitats. Or they were. Man is destroying an area of rainforest as big as Switzerland every year. But the problem doesn't stop there. Habitats and animals are disappearing in Europe, too. Since 1947 in Britain, for example... 50% of the woods have disappeared. 50% of the marshes have disappeared. 95% of the meadows have disappeared. And what has taken the place of these green, natural places? Houses, farms, cities, streets, roads, and factories. Because of this (and pollution, too) several British species are dying. The solution: There is only one way to save wild animals and wild habitats-conservation. protecting animals in danger by law opening more national parks building fewer new roads planting more new forests cutting pollution If this doesn't happen, many wild animals will soon have just one habitat, the zoo.
Questions:
Exercise 6. Read the following text “The Hunting Problems” and decide true or false are the statements given below:
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