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Environmental protection targets missed
Vocabulary
the conservation movement
groups and organisations that work to protect the environment
significantly curbing
reducing by a large amount
the rate of biodiversity loss
the speed at which different plants and animals are dying out
trends
patterns of change and development
increasing degradation
the situation is getting worse, not better
straightforward
simple and uncomplicated
rising affluence
getting materially richer
timber
wood from trees used for building
the human footprint
the impact and space that people take up on the Earth
woefully inadequate
very far from being appropriate or enough