First, complete the following chart with the analysis of the text:

ADJECTIVES ADVERBIAL NOUN PHRASES INFERRING

PHRASES FOR CLARITY MEANING FROM
OF CONTEXT
DESCRIPTIVO
1. COLOMBIAN, 1. almost 10 1. Colombia is the 1. Colombia is a
despite its percent of second country leading producer
relatively small Colombia is under with the greatest of coca, the plant
size some kind of biological diversity that provides the
2. Colombia has protection, its rich on Earth- main ingredient of
oil and gas biodiversity is 2. More than cocaine
deposits increasingly 1,821 species of 2. Drug
3. Poor farmers threatened birds, 623 species eradication efforts
are clearing 2. Each year, of amphibians, have focused on
forests to plant Colombia loses 467 species of aerial spraying
coca seedlings nearly 200,000 mammals, 518 programs in which
4. As the mixture hectares of natural species of reptiles herbicides (a
is a non-selective forest and 3,200 species mixture that
herbicide 3. the country of fish reside in includes Roundup
5. Rare reptiles could be well Colombia and Cosmo-Flux
served to 3. Deforestation 411F from
emphasize its in Colombia is Monsanto
biological diversity mainly due to Corporation)
4. The small-scale 3. While the
government agricultural dumping of
estimates that in activities, logging, chemicals used to
1997 more than mining, energy process coca
seven million development, leaves (including
animals worth $ infrastructure kerosene, sulfuric
40 million were construction, acid, acetone and
illegally exported large-scale carbide)
from Colombia agriculture and the contaminates local
5. The prices of cocaine trade. watercourses
cocaine have 4. In general,
been constantly farmers convert
falling on the the plant into coca
streets of the paste and sell it to
United States, groups, including
indicating that the paramilitaries and
availability of the Colombian rebels.
drug has not 5. Aerial spraying
decreased may also be
causing coca
cultivation to move
to new regions
 6. Attacks on oil
pipelines and
installations by
guerrillas in
eastern Colombia
have caused oil
spills and
pollution.

And second, post your personal opinion on the following questions.

1. Do you contribute to the ecosystem where you live? Why? Why not?
R// Yes, because I try to help as much as possible, avoiding that the people of my
community and I, of course, throw garbage on the ground, prevent forest fires, also
promote the proper use of the land and avoid chemical products. Of being thrown
into the water. Let them know that respecting ecosystems is key to achieving
adequate human development.
2. How would you contribute to the maintenance of the ecosystem?
R// In the future I would contribute, making campaigns so that people realize how
important and necessary it is, that our ecosystem is in adequate conditions, letting
them know that not only, it can harm us, but also ourselves, since having an
ecosystem in bad conditions our existence can decay, due to causes such as
diseases, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural disasters that threaten the
life of the world