Amazon deforestation BBC News: YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlnoxgqEWo

Watch the video and complete the sentences with adequate words/phrases.

1. There has been an _______________________________________________ since the

election of president Bolsonaro.

2. The Amazon plays a vital role in

__________________________________________________________.

3. The Amazon _______________________________________ of carbon dioxide.

4. Decades of _______________________________________________ are being reversed.

5. The billions of trees store so much carbon they help to

____________________________________________________ .

6. The rainforest has never been _________________________________________.

7. The president Jair Bolsonaro was elected on the promise to

________________________________________________.

8. He said that _______________________________________ of the forest is protected.

9. An area the size of _______________________________________________________ every

single minute.

10. The president’s vision of ______________________________________________ has

delighted the farmers.

“Only Brazil can decide what to do with the forest.” Do you agree?