New Ponds Help Great Crested Newts
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Natural England has a system.
- A2
Natural England is a group.
- B1
Natural England is a group that protects nature.
- B2
Natural England, a group that protects nature, runs the District Level Licensing scheme.
- C1
Since the early twentieth century, great crested newt populations in England have declined by more than 40 percent.
- C2
Since the early twentieth century, populations of the great crested newt in England have declined by more than 40 percent, a downward trend largely due to the loss of around two-thirds of the country's ponds.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- protect
- to keep someone or something safe from harm, damage, or illness
- scheme
- an official plan or system for doing or organizing something
- compensation
- something, usually money or a replacement, given to someone who has lost something
- occupied
- being used by people or animals; full
- replace
- to take the place of something, or to put something or someone in the place of something or someone else
- recovery
- the process of getting better, returning to a normal state, or improving
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Natural England blog. Read the original for the full report.