NATURE’S

SERVICES:
WHAT ARE
THEY WORTH?

READING
GROUP MEMBERS:
- Flores Avendaño, Angie
- Carrasco Quispe, Francesca
- Huerta Velasco, Pamela
- Principe Caicay, Estrella
Main idea: “Ecosystems provide humans with many important things, including food
and medicine and services such as air and water purification.”

Controlling idea: “These benefits are called ecosystem services.” ?

Supporting sentences:

- “Recently, human actions have caused costly degradation to some valuable

ecosystem services.”
- “Losing ecosystem services has serious effects on people's lives and health.”
- “Destruction and degradation of ecosystem services also affect the economy, since
fixing or replacing the services costs a lot of money.”

Concluding sentence: “Clearly, ecosystem services are too valuable to lose.”

Outline
Topic sentence: Importance of ecosystem services.

Details:

- Ecosystem degradation.
- Effects on people’s lives and health.
- Destruction and degradation affect the economy.

Concluding sentence: Ecosystem services are important for human sustainability.