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SOUTH AFRICA: POLICE CRACK REPTILE SMUGGLING NETWORK
English/Nat
South African police have cracked an illegal reptile smuggling network with links to the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Colombia and Madagascar.
Adders, pythons and scorpions were seized in a night raid which ended...
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S�o Paulo's wildlife rehabilitation centre
AP Television
Jundia�, Brazil, March 3, 2009
1.Pan wide shot. Serra do Japi Biological Reserve (Japi Mountains). Part of the green belt around S�o Paulo's metropolitan region.
2. SP 330 - Anhanguera Highway. One of the busiest...
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Texas quail hunting season is here, and dog owners want their companions to avoid dangerous snakes that can cause serious injury or even death. So they take their dogs to 'de-snaking' clinics, like one Julian Weslow has been doing for 37 years. (Nov. 4)
(NATs - Rattlesnake rattling)
(NATs - "You always catch them in the middle, not around the neck.")
SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Hardin, Houston dog owner of Boudreaux:
"It's a real danger for your dog."
SOUNDBITE (English) Pete Thuman,...
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Snake soup a popular dish in China
1. Pan sign translates as "Snake King Hip�, then to snake shop
2. Wide a man eating snake soup in the shop
3. Close, snake soup
4. Close, man eating snake soup
5. Pan menu on wall to man eating snake soup
6. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese)...
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UPITN 30 5 79 PETER SNYMAN LEAVES CAGE OF SNAKES AFTER 50 DAYS
Peter Snyman has been allowed out of the cage for only half-an-hour each day -- the rest of the days have been spent in the direct company of six black mambas, six Egyptian cobras, six tree snakes and half a dozen puff adders. Any one of...
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Florida officials consider ban on pythons after pet snake killed 2-year-old girl
FILE - date and location unknown
1. Various file pictures of large python in cage
Tallahassee, Florida - 05 August 2009
2. Florida Governor Charlie Crist walking into room
3. Pan of meeting of Crist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife...
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7-year-old boy has 4.8m long pet python he sleeps curled up with
1. Wide of house of Koun family
2. Koun Samang (boy) and two men taking snake "Chomran" out of the house
3. Various of Samang playing with snake
4. Mid of Samang kissing snake
5. Mid of Samang lying down on snake
6. Mid of Samang lying...
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Fans get sneak preview of new horror film at Comic Con
No re-use/re-sale of film/video clips without clearance
New Line
1. Trailer excerpt: "Snakes on a Plane"
AP Entertainment
San Diego, 21 July 2006
2. SOUNDBITE (English) David R. Ellis, Director:
"We've got snakes. We've got a plane....
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Rare birds become tourist attraction
AP Television
Hainan Island, China - May 1, 2010
1. Close up of birds
2. Mid of Hianan phesant
3. Zoom in of Hainan wild grouse
4. Mid shot of tourists
5. Various of Indonesian parrots
6. Mid of girl watching parrots
7. Various of...
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More teams arriving, heading for athletes' village, reax
1. Wide of entrance to Commonwealth Games village
2. Armed security
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline Searle, England team manager:
"The rooms that we've moved athletes in today are clean and ready and we're comfortable that everybody is...
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Cobra attack helicopters on mountain on Iraq border
1. Wide of smoke billowing from mountain at border area, helicopters in sky
2. Long view of helicopter
3. Wide of smoke in the distance
4. Various of helicopters in sky
5. Various of smoke in the distance
6. Pan of helicopter, pull out...
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Cast of 'G.I. Joe' hold press conference in Seoul
AP Entertainment
Seoul, South Korea July 29, 2009
1. Wide, with zoom in of 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' press conference, with Sienna Miller and South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun
2. Medium of producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, actor...
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Florida officials have launched an effort to eradicate pythons that have infested the Everglades
HEADLINE: Python hunt on in Everglades
CAPTION: Florida officials have launched an effort to eradicate pythons that have infested the Everglades. (July 17)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
Florida launches Python Hunt in Everglades
Almost on cue,...
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VOICE Zoo claims capture of 15-metre python
VOICED BY Louise Bates
0000 Wide shot of snake cage with python inside
0005 Mid shot of snake handlers with the python
0014 Tracking shot along python, starting from tail and ending at its head
0042 Mid shot hands around body of...
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More than 2,000 snakes returned after smugglers intercepted in Hong Kong
1. Wide of customs officers placing boxes containing snakes on grass
2. Close of bag of snakes being lifted from box
3. Close of official looking at snakes
4. Pan of two bags of snakes
5. Wide of officials putting snakes back in boxes
6....
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Cleanup, athletes prepare to depart, snakes in the games village
1. Pan from vacant security post to signboard of Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium
2. Various of auto rickshaw driver waiting with the Games' poster in the background
3. Wide of vacant security post
4. Various of vehicles carrying...
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More than 700 people turned out for the first-ever Florida Python Challenge to help rid the Everglades of the Burmese Python. The snake, an invasive non-native species, is decimating wildlife like rabbits and deer.
HEADLINE: Hundreds Hunt for Invasive Pythons in Everglades
CAPTION: More than 700 people turned out for the first-ever Florida Python Challenge to help rid the Everglades of the Burmese Python. The snake, an invasive non-native species,...
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THAILAND: CARGO OF COBRA SNAKES INTERCEPTED
Thai/Nat
Thai authorities have intercepted a cargo of a thousand cobras bound for restaurants in Vietnam.
They were hidden in boxes underneath a legal consignment of turtles.
Southeast Asia is one of the centres for the criminal...
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THAILAND: POLICE RAID BACKSTREET SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Thai/Nat
Thai authorities have raided and closed a backstreet slaughterhouse that was
supplying the illegal market in exotic foods.
The vast haul of animals included pythons, monitor lizards and turtles.
But, the police concede, it was...
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SOUTH AFRICA: JOHANNESBURG: 3 BABY "DASSIE RATS" ARE BORN
English/Nat
At the Johannesburg snake park in southern Africa, three baby "dassie rats", born last week, are proof of the only breeding programme of its kind in the world.
The rarely seen "dassie rat" is related to neither the dassie...
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RR8022B SOUTH AFRICA SNAKE SIT-INS
Background to Story: South Africa is going through a spate of world
record-breaking snake sit-ins. Two South Africans, one White and one Black have
both shattered the existing world record by spending more than 50 days in a cage
full...
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South Africa - New reptile park opens
On the banks of the Crocodile River near Nelspruit in
north-east Johannesburg a new park has been opened dedicated to
exhibiting one of the largest collections of reptiles in the
world.
Besides the glass tanks is a pond which has been...
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Malaysia - Snake charming contest
In a small town in northern Malaysia, snake-charmers from all over the world gathered at the weekend to demonstrate their weird and wonderful powers. It was not a competition for the faint-hearted. Spitting snakes of all shapes and sizes...
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Animal lovers take their pets for a special St Francis day blessing
1. Various of Father Michael Martin, Parish Priest of Malate Church, blessing pet snake
2. Close of pet tarantula spider inside plastic container
3. Mid of priest blessing tarantula
4. Mid of priest blessing dogs
5. Close of boy holding...