Ecologist: Without the intervention of conservationists, squirrel monkeys will become extinct. ███ ████ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ██████ ██ █████████████ ██████ ███████ ███ █████████ ███ █████ ████████ ███████ ████████ ██ █████████████ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████ ██ █████ ████████ ███████ ███ ██████
First sentence - “Without” is used just like “unless” here, so it means:
If there is NO intervention of conservationists → squirrel monkeys extinct
Second sentence - “If” introduces the sufficient condition:
Tracts of second-growth forest preserved → squirrel monkeys NOT extinct
The last sentence tells us why squirrel monkeys “flourish” in second-growth forest. But it is not a conditional and does not connect to the conditionals in the first two sentences.
We can connect the first two sentences, although you need to do the contrapositive of one or the other to see the connection:
If there is NO intervention of conservationists → squirrel monkeys extinct → tracts of second-growth forest NOT preserved
OR
If tracts of second-growth forest preserved → squirrel monkeys NOT extinct → there was intervention of conservationists
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At least some ██ ███ ████████████████ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ███ ████████ ███████ ███████ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██████████ █████████████ ██████ ███████ ███ ███ ████████
Without plentiful supplies ██ █████ ████████ ███████ ███ ██████ ████████ ███████ ████ ██████ ████████
If conservationists intervene ██ ████ ████████ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ ████████ ███████ ████ ███ ██████ ████████
Without the intervention ██ █████████████████ █████ ██████ ██ █████████████ ██████ ███████ ████ ███ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ████████