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WILD AND WONDERFUL
THEWI

ore and more people think that life is better in onto their bodies. This makes them look scarier and it
M the city than the countryside. For the first time frightens other people away from their land.
in history more than 50% of the world's population The Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia is one and
lives in urban areas. However, there are still many a half times bigger than France. It is frozen for much
groups of people who live in some of the wildest of the year and temperatures can reach -50°C in
places on the planet. the winter. But this area is home to a tribe of about
The Kalahari is a large area of bush land in southern Africa. 10,000 people called the Nenets.The Nenets are
It has two parts. The south part is drier than the north and nomadic, meaning they frequently move from one
plants do not grow there very well. Every year at the end place to another. Each year around 300,000 reindeer
of summer it rains and the land becomes more beautiful move around the land and the Nenets always go
than at other times of the year. But the grass and the with them. The recent discovery of gas in the area
bushes soon get dry and turn brown again. Life there is means more people than before are visiting the
difficult. Yamal. So the Nenets now have more contact with
The San are a group of people who live in the Kalahari. the outside world.
They live in huts, eat wild animals - even lions - plants The Bayan-Olgii Province is the highest part of
and berries. They are very good with bows and arrows, and Mongolia. It is a wild area with many mountains,
use them for hunting. lakes, forests and rivers. It is also home to the Kazakh
Up in the mountains of central Papua New Guinea is the golden eagle hunters.These people travel around the
Chimbu Province. This jungle area is one of the world's mountains and use eagles to hunt for foxes and other
most remote places. It is also home to Mt Wilhelm, the small animals. When boys turn 13, they can become
highest mountain on the island. Several different tribes golden eagle hunters. However, they have to be
live in the valleys between the mountains. One of these stronger than most boys their age because they have
is the Chimbu skeleton dancers. They paint skeletons to show that they can carry the weight of an eagle.
There are about 100,000 Kazakh people, but only
around 250 of them are golden eagle hunters.

TH!NK

Valuing our world

7 Read and tick ( /) the statements that show that 8 SPEAKING Compare your ideas in pairs.
the natural world is important.
1 Why should I be interested in people living in Statement 1 shows that the
wild places? There's nothing to learn from them. O person does not know how
wonderful our world is. Why do you
2 I want to organise trips to Papua New Guinea. think that?
People will pay a lot of money to see the
skeleton dancers.
3 It's great to learn about nature. It helps me to Because the person
understand more about the world. isn't interested in Maybe this person
people living in wild needs more information
4 Who needs wild animals? They're dangerous -
places. to understand how
and that's all!
wonderful these places are.
5 I watch a lot of nature programmes on TV.
I support a project to save the tiger in India.