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Amazon Rainforest Debate Cards
This communicative resource enables students to build their understanding of the various interest groups connected to deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
8 different cards have the interest group’s key ideological positions on the issues and how to structure the argument and possible sentence starters to support students.
*The interest groups include: business people, environmentalists, farmers, indigenous tribes, local doctors, logging companies, mining companies, and politicians *
The possible options for development in this debate are:
Clear an area of forest for mining, logging and cattle ranching.
Protect an area of the forest creating a national park for tourism, restaurants and activity centres.
Fence off an area for local people to continue their traditional lifestyle, allowing only small-scale farming and scientists to research new medicines.