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72 Unit 05 | Wild world Talking about cause and effect Add the missing prepositions to the phrases you can use to talk about cause and effect. LANGUAGE 19 Design a poster about palm oil. Use information you found in the article and do some research online. You could cover the following points:  positive and negative sides of palm oil production  examples of products containing palm oil  endangered animals in areas where palm oil is produced  suggestions to improve the situation What animal or environmental organisations do you already know of? What kind of work do they do raising people’s awareness and protecting animals or places? Read the text about orangutan rescue in Indonesia. Some words are missing. Complete the text by writing one word for each gap (1–11) in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. WRITING 20 LANGUAGE IN USE 21 a b 1 Deforestation in Indonesia is a direct result the demand for palm oil in the Western world. 2 Loss of rainforest leads a growing number of endangered species because it results a loss of habitat. 3 a consequence this environmental destruction, orangutans could be extinct in a decade. 4 Not buying products containing palm oil could have a positive effect nature in Indonesia. Caring for our relatives The deforestation of our planet is (0) major problems for many species that make the forest their home. Happily, there are some organisations which work hard every day to rescue animals in danger and (1) them from extinction. One of them is International Animal Rescue (IAR) , which runs a programme to rescue orangutans in Indonesia. Orangutans spend the majority of their lives in the treetops in relative safety. However, as a (2) of the ‘slash and burn’ techniques, in which the forests are cut and/or set on fire to make (3) for the planting of oil palms, the treetops become a death trap 2 . Confused and frightened, the orangutans either remain in the trees with the fires surrounding them, (4) climb down to try to escape. In both cases, the animals are then often burned alive. As the forests are (5) , the surviving orangutans are unable to get enough food and may take fruit and vegetables from farms or go into villages where they may be captured or even killed. IAR’s team helps orangutans left homeless and relocates 3 these (6) animals to safe areas of protected forest. Animals that can (7) survive in the wild are given a permanent home at the centre. IAR also works to rescue and care (8) baby orangutans when their mothers have been killed or when they have been taken to be illegally sold as pets. Rescued baby orangutans of between the ages of two and four are taken to a baby school where they (9) time in a special forest playground and  2  death trap: Todesfalle  3  to relocate sb./sth.: jmdn./etw. umsiedeln Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum d s Verlags öbv