Travel and Environment

• go to places tourists don’t normally go, somewhere different/unusual

  get off the beaten track
• showing good judgement, especially about style and quality

  discerning
• areas of land; collocates with large, vast, huge

  tracts
• wild, areas covered in grass, bushes or trees (especially in Africa and Australia)

  the bush
• long, pleasant walk, not too demanding

  ramble
• hike usually of several days over wild country

  trek
• no other holiday programme can match this

  unrivalled
• the business of organising holidays in a way which helps local people and does not damage the environment

  ecoturism
• the inland areas furthest away from the sea or from borders with other countries

  heartland
• to praise someone or something in a way that will increase expectations of them

  to build something/someone up
• a phrase used to refer to an invisible barrier that stops people, especially women, from rising to top positions at work

  glass ceiling
• a chance to do something special

  window of opportunity
• The grassroots supporters of an organisation or society are the ordinary people in it, not the leaders
• stopped before it develops into something

  nipped in the bud
• showing promise of seed future development

  budding
• cut/limit

  prune back
• beginning to develop

  germinating
• appearing quickly in large numbers

  sprouting up
• first

  signs that smth is improving

  green shoots
• its young grow in a pouch in front of the mother

  marsupial
• animal that feeds on dead animals which it has not killed itself

  scavanger
• used to mean animals or birds that are hunted

  game
• sports whose purpose is to kill or injure animals

  bood sports
• people who hunt animals illegally

  poachers