Over 2,000 Volunteers Plant 10,000 Native Plants in Record Time in Southern Texas
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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held an event.
- A2
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held the 32nd Rio Reforestation.
- B1
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held the 32nd annual Rio Reforestation on 17 October 2026.
- B2
On 17 October 2026, more than 2,000 volunteers took part in the 32nd annual Rio Reforestation in southern Texas.
- C1
On 17 October 2026, more than 2,000 volunteers gathered in southern Texas and planted 10,000 native plants in less than two hours.
- C2
Ten thousand young plants is a daunting heap of greenery to face at the start of a morning.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- reforestation
- the act of planting trees on an area of land that has become empty or spoiled
- recover
- to return to a normal or healthy state after a difficult period or damage
- sapling
- a very young tree with a thin trunk
- species
- a group of plants or animals that share similar characteristics and can breed with each other
- habitat
- the natural environment where an animal or plant normally lives or grows
- unite
- to bring people together so that they work or act as one group
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by US Fish and Wildlife Service. Read the original for the full report.