Following Sister Dorothy’s brutal murder, Brazil’s president ordered 20,000 square miles of the Amazon to be placed under environmental protection. This action has given some hope to human rights defenders and environmentalists that, if more people cared, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest might yet be prevented. For as Sister Dorothy frequently warned:
‘The death of the rainforest is the end of our life.’
Sister Dorothy Stang referred to the rainforest as ‘the Earth’s lungs’.
Deforestation Drought Flooding Maathai Steward Earth Gift
Stang Amazon Rainforest Oxygen
Destruction Martyr
2. Say what it means!
(a) Extinct means ________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ .
(b) The environment is ____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ .
(c) A martyr is ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ .
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