If you’re looking to take part in voluntourism in the area, consider the Lizard Island. It’s a private national park that works     1     (close) with local scientists     2     (protect) coral reefs (珊瑚礁). Guests can tour its huge research centre.

The Great Barrier Reef’s Ocean Park Rangers (巡游者), government workers responsible     3     the day-to-day management of ocean parks,     4     (train) as guides who can educate curious travellers on the wildlife and ecosystems. In June of 2022, citizens of the Great Barrier Reef Programme started The Reef Cooperative,     5     will allow travellers,     6     (begin) in 2024, to go to vulnerable areas to see the conservation (保护) work and efforts take place.

Hope that this     7     (nature) wonder can be saved is growing. Over the past few years, a lot of conservationists, government agencies, NGOs, and tourism operators     8     (focus) on the reef’s health.

One hope of the programme is to inspire     9     (tourist) to help protect the Great Barrier Reef, especially within the younger generation. Imagine the good you can do when you learn so early in life that you hold the power to make the planet     10     better place.

The International Day for Biological Diversity, sometimes     1     (call) World Biodiversity Day, is a United Nations holiday based on biodiversity issues. It started in 1993 and is held on May 22 every year.

Biodiversity is the     2     (vary) types of plants and animals living together in a certain place,     3     (include) life at the genetic and cell level, through to all plant, fish, insect and animal species. Biodiversity also includes the thousands, perhaps millions, of ecosystems     4     make up our natural world.     5     word “biodiversity” arrived in 1985. It is a contraction of the words “biological” and “diversity”. And recently it     6     (grow) into a very important concept we all need to understand.

A respect for biodiversity means an understanding that we must help save our environment. Today, biodiversity is one of the world’s most important     7     (issue). Many say that together with climate change, damage     8     biodiversity is the biggest threat to our     9     (survive). The COP 15 meeting held in October in Kunming paves the way for global cooperation. Let’s join hands and make the Earth greener, so that we can prosper     10     (continuous).