environmentalist – a person who chooses a lifestyle that is designed to minimise
their impact on the natural environment and who campaigns for environmental issues.
- Plans to build a new road alongside the lake drew fierce oppositions
from environmentalists.
environmentally-friendly – not harmful to the environment.
- There are many environmentally-friendly cleaning products on the market that
don’t contain chemicals that damage the environment.
natural environment – the natural world as opposed to, for example, a working
environment.
- When the injured seal had been nursed back to health in the rescue centre, it was
returned to its natural environment.
environmental hazard – a substance or an event which has the potential to threaten
the surrounding natural environment.
- The illegal storage of toxic waste presents a significant environmental hazard.
environmental disaster – a catastrophic event affecting the environment due to
human activity.
- When the oil tanker ran aground, it caused an environmental disaster from which
it took the local wildlife many years to recover.
conservation – the protection of plants, animals and natural resources, usually by
planned human action.
- It was Dimitri’s dream to get a job in conservation.
conservationist – a person who takes action to protect the environment from damage
caused by humans.
- Conservationists are working hard to protect the breeding grounds of sea turtles.
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