ある団体が雨林を保護する運動を起こした。

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English Translation

A group started a campaign to preserve rain forests.

Furigana

ある団体(だんたい)が雨林(うりん)を保護(ほご)する運動(うんどう)を起(お)こした。

Romanji

Aru dantai ga urin o hogosuru undō o okoshita.

Words

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...

団体 (だんたい)

organization; organisation; association

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

雨林 (うりん)

rain forest

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

保護 (ほご、ほうご)

care; protection; shelter; safeguard; guardianship; favor; favour; patronage

運動 (うんどう)

exercise; physical training; work-out; appeal; campaign; drive; crusade; movement; lobbying; motion; movement

起こす (おこす)

to raise; to raise up; to set up; to pick up; to wake; to wake up; to waken; to awaken; to cause; to bring about; to lead to; to trigger; to give rise to; to create; to generate (e.g. heat, electricity); to produce; to start; to begin; to launch; to establish; to found; to set up; to open; to plough; to plow; to till; to fall ill with; to transcribe; to write down (what is spoken); to turn over (a card)