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Practice Writing: Summarize Written Text
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Namibia Independence B1
When Namibia gained independence in 1990, teenager Pascolena Florry was herding goats in the country’s dry, desolate northern Savannah. Her job, unpaid and dangerous, was to protect her parents’ livestock from preying jackals and leopards. She saw wildlife as the enemy, and many of the other indigenous inhabitants of Namibia’s rural communal lands shared her view. Wildlife poaching was commonplace.
Fifteen years later, 31-year-old Pascolena’s life and outlook are very different. She has built a previously undreamed of career in tourism and is the first black Namibian to be appointed a manager of a guest lodge. Her village and hundreds of others have directly benefited from government efforts to devolve wildlife management and tourism development on communal lands to conservancies run by indigenous peoples. “Now we see the wildlife as our way of creating jobs and opportunities as the tourism industry grows,” she says. “The future is better with wildlife around, not only for jobs but also for the environment”.
Wildlife poaching was commonplace. Fifteen years later, 31-year-old Pascolena’s life and outlook are very different. She has built a previously undreamed of career in tourism and is the first black Namibian to be appointed the manager of a guest lodge. Her village and hundreds of others have directly benefited from government efforts to devolve wildlife management and tourism development on communal lands to conservationists run by indigenous peoples.
Fifteen years later, 31-year-old Pascolena’s life and outlook are very different. She has built a previously undreamed of career in tourism and is the first black Namibian to be appointed a manager of a guest lodge. Her village and hundreds of others have directly benefited from government efforts to devolve wildlife management and tourism development on communal lands to conservancies run by indigenous peoples. “Now we see the wildlife as our way of creating jobs and opportunities as the tourism industry grows,” she says. “The future is better with wildlife around, not only for jobs but also for the environment”.
Wildlife poaching was commonplace. Fifteen years later, 31-year-old Pascolena’s life and outlook are very different. She has built a previously undreamed of career in tourism and is the first black Namibian to be appointed the manager of a guest lodge. Her village and hundreds of others have directly benefited from government efforts to devolve wildlife management and tourism development on communal lands to conservationists run by indigenous peoples.
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Sample Answer 1
When Namibia got independence in 1990, teenager Pascolena Florry was herding goats in the country’s dry, desolate northern savannah, and her village and hundreds of others have directly benefited from government efforts to devolve wildlife management and tourism development on communal lands to conservancies run by indigenous peoples.
Sample Answer 2
Namibia, the establishment of conservancies, run by local communities and assisted by the government and nongovernmental organisations, has been proved successful to help developing countries to decentralise natural resources, create jobs and improve the economy.
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When Namibia
gainedgot independence in 1990, teenager Pascolena Florry was herding goats in the country’s dry, desolate northern savannah, and her village and hundreds of others have directly benefited from government efforts to devolve wildlife management and tourism development on communal lands to conservanciesrun by indigenous peoples. -> Both sentences talking about Pascolena Floory, animals.
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