The Environnement Flashcards
Des politiques vertes
Eco-friendly policies
Écologique
Lié à l’environnement
Environmental
Une politique qui respecte l’environnement
An environmentally-friendly policy
Environment-friendly policy
Eco-friendly policy
Protéger l’environnement
To protect the environment
To preserve the environment
La protection de l’environnement
The preservation of the environment
La nature
Nature
La protection de la nature
Nature conservation
La faune et la flore
Wildlife
WWF
The World Wide Fund for Nature
International non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation of the environment
What is the world’s largest indépendant conservation organization?
WWF
Over 5 million supporters worldwide
Working in more than 90 countries
Organisation caritative
Charity
Where does the majority of WWFs findings come from?
60% of its funding comes from voluntary donations by private individuals
Stopper
To halt
What is WWFs mission?
“To halt and reverse the destruction of our environment”
Biome
Biomes
Un défenseur de l’environnement
A conservationist
Un écologiste
An environmentalist
An ecologist
Un militant écologiste
A green activist
An eco-warrior
Un écolo
A tree-hugger
Sensibiliser l’opinion publique à un problème
To make people aware of a problem
Une campagne de sensibilisation
An awareness-raising campaign
Un parc naturel
A nature reserve
A national park
Le tourisme écologique
Eco-tourism
Greenpeace
International non-governmental organization for the protection and conservation of the environment
Founded in Canada in 1971
What are the concerns of Greenpeace?
It started out as an anti-nuclear protest group but has now turned to other concerns such as whaling , bottom trawling, global warming, nuclear power and genetically modified organism
La chasse à la baleine
Whaling
Pêche au chalutier
Bottom trawling
What is Friends of the Earth?
International network of environmental organizations in 77 countries
Their current priorities are economic justice and resisting neoliberalism, forest and biodiversity, food sovereignty, climate justice and energy.
Détruire la biosphère
To destroy the biosphere
Représenter une menace pour quelque chose
To pose a threat to something
Etre une menace pour quelque chose
To be a threat to something
Mettre en danger quelque chose
To jeopardize something
To endanger something
Mettre quelque chose en danger
To put something at risk
Etre en danger
To be at risk
To be in danger
What is the Gaia hypothesis?
Proposed by James Lovelock
Postulates that the Earth should be viewed as a single organism (the biosphere and the physical components of the Earth are closely integrated to form a complex interacting system)
Nuire à l’environnement
To harm the environment
To do harm to the environment
Nuisible
Nocif
Harmful
Inoffensif
Sans danger
Harmless
Dégâts
Damage
Endommager quelque chose
Porter atteinte à quelque chose
To damage something
Causer des dégâts
To do damage
To cause damage
Se détériorer
Détériorer
To deteriorate
Le bien-être
Welfare
En désaccord
At loggerheads
S’épuiser
To run out
Souiller
To defile
How is the world going according to economists?
The world seems to be getting better
How is the world going according to environmentalists?
Natural resources are running out
The population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat
Species are becoming extinct and forest are disappearing
The planet’s air and water are becoming ever more polluted
Les ressources naturelles
Natural resources
L’épuisement des ressources
The depletion of resources
La rareté
Scarcity
Les matières premières
Raw materials
Récolte (verbe)
Is reaping
Mesures assouplissant la réglementation
Regulatory relief
Abroger
Has repealed
Dépouiller
To strip
La biodiversité
Biodiversity
L’habitat
Habitat
Une niche
A niche
Un secteur sauvegardé
Une zone protégée
A conservation area
Un écosystème
An ecosystem
Une espèce
A species
Un espèce animale
An animal species
Une espèce végétale
A plant species
Le trafic d’animaux
Animal trafficking
What is Darwin’s Nightmare?
A controversial documentary film that was released in 2004
Describes the disastrous effects of the development of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania
Le film s’étend sur
The film dwells at length on
Une espèce en voie de disparition
An endangered species
Être menacé d’extinction
To be threatened with extinction
Disparaitre
To become extinct
La surpêche
Overfishing
Le thon rouge
Bluefin tuna
Un dauphin
A dolphin
Une baleine
A whale
La pêche à la baleine
Whaling
Facilement
Readily
La couche d’ozone
The ozone layer
Les rayons ultra-violets
Ultra-violet rays
Le trou dans la couche d’ozone
The hole in the ozone layer
La diminution de la couche d’ozone
Ozone depletion
Les CFC
CFCs
Respectueux de la couche d’ozone
Ozone-friendly
Frappant
Striking
Entremêlés
Intermingled
Exprimer
To voice
Une forêt tropicale
A rainforest
A tropical forest
Le développement durable
Sustainable development
Abattre des arbres
To fell trees
To cut down trees
Le déboisement
La déforestation
Deforestation
L’exploitation du bois
Logging
L’industrie du bois
The logging industry
La forêt tropicale se réduit
The rainforest is shrinking
Reboiser
To reforest
Le reboisement
Reforestation
Terrains de foot
Football pitches
How held the Guinness world record of the fastest pace of deforestation in 2007?
Indonesian government
