Breeding Program Helps Wētāpunga Populations
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
The Department of Conservation is a government group.
- A2
A 15-year breeding program helped a special animal.
- B1
A 15-year breeding program has helped the wētāpunga.
- B2
A 15-year breeding program has helped the wētāpunga, which is a very large insect from New Zealand.
- C1
Native to New Zealand, the wētāpunga is a large insect that was nearly driven to extinction by habitat loss and introduced pests.
- C2
Native to New Zealand, the wētāpunga is a large insect that was nearly driven to extinction by habitat loss and introduced pests.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- breeding
- The process of keeping animals to produce young ones.
- method
- Ways of doing something.
- release
- To let an animal or person go free.
- predator
- Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
- sanctuary
- Safe places where animals are protected from danger.
- endangered
- At risk of no longer existing.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Department of Conservation (New Zealand). Read the original for the full report.