42. Endangered Forests Flashcards

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Sauver, sauvegarder la forêt

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To save / to preserve the forest

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Les forêts en danger

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Endangered forests

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La forêt pluviale amazonienne

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The Amazon rainforest

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La forêt tropicale

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The tropical forest

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Un forêt nuageuse

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A cloud forest

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Un habitat, un biotope

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A habitat

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La biodiversité

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Biodiversity

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Un écosystème

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An ecosystem

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La photosynthèse

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Photosynthesis

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Un cèdre

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A cedar

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Un séquoia

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A sequoia / a redwood

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Un platane

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A plane tree

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Un chêne

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An oak

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Un pin

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A pine tree

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Un sycomore

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A sycamore

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De l’acajou

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Mahogany

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La déforestation

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Deforestation

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Être menacé

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To be under threat

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Empiéter sur la forêt

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To encroach upon the forest

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Un incendie de forêt

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A forest fire

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Abattre des arbres

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To cut down trees

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Un tronc d’arbre

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A treetrunk

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L’abattage des arbres

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Logging

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Un rondin

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A log

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Un bûcheron

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A logger / a woodcutter

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Le bois de charpente

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Timber / lumber

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Le bois de chauffage

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Firewood

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Un fournisseur de bois de charpente

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A timber supplier

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Scier

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To saw

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Une scierie

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A sawmill (GB) / a lumbermill (US)

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Une tronçonneuse

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A chain saw

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La reforestation

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Reforestation / reafforestation

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Un programme de plantation d’arbres

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A tree-planting programme

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Un forestier

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A forester

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La gestion de la forêt

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The management of the forest

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La sylviculture durable

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Sustainable forestry

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Empêcher l’érosion du sol

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To prevent soil erosion

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Réduire le risque de glissement de terrain

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To reduce the risk of landslide

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Absorber du gaz carbonique

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To soak carbon dioxide

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Les poumons de la planète

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The lungs of the planet

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Les deux-tiers des forêts mondiales ont définitivement disparu et une étendue de la superficie de l’Angleterre et du pays de Galles disparaît chaque année

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Two thirds of the world’s forest have been lost for ever and an area the size of England and Wales disappears each year

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Les forêts sont grignotées dans le monde entier

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Forests are being nibbled at all over the world

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Transformée en papier

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Turned into paper

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Si la déforestation continue au rythme actuel, la forêt pluviale brésilienne pourrait avoir disparu complètement dans moins de 50 ans

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If deforestation continues at the present rate, rainforest in Brazil could be wiped out entirely within 50 years

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Le grenier à grain du monde

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The granary of the world

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Le fait que les fermiers brésiliens dépendent de plus en plus du soja menace de détruire la forêt pluviale

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Brazilian farmers’ increasing dependence on soya threatens to destroy the rainforest

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L’amenuisement de la forêt amazonienne est un désastre pour la biodiversité et pour les tendances climatiques de la planète

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The shrinking of the Amazon forest is a disaster for species diversity and global weather patterns

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Tous les espèces animales et végétales

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All plant and animal species

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Les forêts peuvent être considérées comme la machine qu’utilise la nature pour recycler le gaz carbonique

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Forest can be seen as nature’s machine for recycling carbon dioxide