2.1. Answer the questions.
a) Are forests important? What for?
b) Are modern forests in good or poor condition?
c) Which forests suffer most?
d) Can we disrupt forest systems without any consequences?
e) Which measures are taken to preserve the forest? Give examples.
Look at the pictures. What do they show?
 Deforestation by Mikhail Zlatkovsky
| 2.2. Look at the following sentences and decide whether you think they are true or false. Then read the text to find out if you were right with your predictions.
World leaders do everything possible to stop deforestation.
1/4 of heat-trapping gasses is emitted through deforestation.
Aviation industry produces more emissions that deforestation.
Forests are usually thought of as CO2 absorbers.
Burning rainforests can be seen from space.
Britain-size territories are felled annually.
Farmers are paid for not ploughing the land.
Third-world countries are paid money for their forests standing.
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