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Conservation SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Climate change
p.60

Conservation is the protection of habitats and the ▸ ▸ Farming p.98
plants and animals that live in them. This is important ▸ ▸ Forests p.109
because human activity, such as cutting down trees ▸ ▸ Habitats p.126

and throwing away garbage, destroys animal homes. ▸ ▸ Pollution p.198
▸ ▸ Zoo p.281

Forests
People cut down trees
for wood and to make space
Habitats for farms. Some wood is
Animals live in used to make paper. In danger
Many animals are
areas we call habitats. Recycling paper helps in danger of dying out.
When people damage save trees.
habitats, they threaten When a type of animal has
many animals and plants. completely died out, we say
it is extinct. National parks
Wildlife reserves protect and laws try to stop
habitats and the animals animals from
that live in them. becoming extinct.

Under threat
Here are some of the
ways humans have affected
animals and their habitats, or
homes. We can help protect
animals by making small
changes in our
everyday lives.

Pollution
Pollution happens Fishing
when people release People have caught so
dirty or harmful many fish from the sea
substances into the world that many species are
around them. It can kill becoming rare. We can now
wildlife. Reusing and choose to eat farmed fish
recycling things reduces instead, leaving wild
the amount we fish alone.
throw away.

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