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How certain poisons might provide medical cures
Utah, United States - recent
1. Close of scorpion
2. Close of snake
3. Close of tarantula
4. Prof. Baldomero Olivera checking aquarium tanks
5. Various close of cone snails in tanks
6. Close of snail stinging and swallowing goldfish...
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Burning of banned hissing cockroaches
1. Various of Madagascan Giant Hissing Cockroaches in plastic cage
2. Close up of cockroach climbing up arm of health official
3. Close up of health official
4. Various of cockroaches in cage
5. Wide shot of photographers around cage
6....
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USA: SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TO TAKE COCKROACHES ON MISSION
Natural Sound
It may be hard to believe - but for some folks John Glenn isn't the focus of the "Discovery" shuttle mission.
In fact, for a group of teenagers in the U-S state of Maryland, the featured attraction is a bunch of creepy...
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Concerns over dwindling bee numbers
AP Television
Brussels, Belgium - 13 May 2013
1. Mid of beekeeper Anne Van Eeckhou removing bees from hive
2. Close-up of bees, including queen bee (marked with yellow dot)
3. Wide of van Eeckhou removing bees from hive and looking at...
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Easy to grow seeds make excellent fuel source
AP Television
Lusaka, Zambia - 17 March, 2011
1. Close up of jatropha fruit growing on bush, hand coming up to pick it
2. Biofuel producer Thomson Sinkala opening jatropha fruit to reveal oil-rich seeds
3. One of Sinkala's workers...
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Almond farmers hope that bee populations remain healthy
Hughson, California - February 24, 2009
1. Zoom in from vineyard to almond orchard in the distance
2. Wide shot of orchard with beehives
3. Close shot of almond blossom
4. Set up shot of Orin Johnson, President of the California...
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HONEYBEES TAKE UP RESIDENCE AT WALDORF ASTORIA
The hotel plans to harvest its own honey and help pollinate plants in the skyscraper-heavy heart of the city, joining a mini beekeeping boom that has taken over hotel rooftops from Paris to Times Square.
"Today about half the population...
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Smelly flower popular tourist attraction
1. Wideshot of "Corpse Flower" with crowd of onlookers
2. Tilt down flower
3. Close up of onlooker
4. Close-up of onlooker
5. Wideshot of flower and crowd
6. Pan across spathe (petal)
7. Wideshot of botanist, John Trager, examining...
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INDIA: WORLD BANK FINANCING PROJECTS WHICH CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE
English/Nat
As the world climate conference continues in Berlin, environmental groups in India have attacked the World Bank for financing projects which cause climate change.
They've cited two examples in particular: a power station on...
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Arachnophobes confront spiders to conquer their fear
Bristol, United Kingdom, July 22, 2009
1. Close up move in on tarantula
2. Mid shot of biologist and tarantula on rock
3. Mid shot of visitors to zoo pullout to wide of zoo entrance
4. Close up of Bristol Zoo sign
5. Close move on beetle...
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Boran cattle promote wildlife on African rangelands
AP Television
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya - 23rd February, 2012
1. Wide of Boran cattle grazing with zebras in the back ground
2. Mid of a zebra getting in to the bush
3. Herd of elephants
4. Various of Boran cattle trampling...
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Russia - Cockroach Races
A group of Russians, disillusioned with the poor quality of candidates put up for the recently-held elections, instead put their faith in cockroaches. They held a cockroach race at an art gallery in Moscow and attracted large crowds with...
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FRANCE: COURT STRIPS JEAN-MARIE LE PEN OF HIS CIVIC RIGHTS
Eng/French/Nat
A court in France stripped far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen of his civic rights for two years on Thursday for attacking a Socialist candidate during election campaigning last May.
Le Pen has also been slapped with a 3300...
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FRANCE: FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE LATEST
French/Nat
France has ordered the destruction of 50-thousand sheep as a precaution against foot-and-mouth disease.
As well as 20-thousand animals imported from across the Channel, Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said officials would...
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Wildlife corridor links two national game reserves, protects wildlife
1. Man riding bicycle through Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor
2. Elephants in corridor
3. Baboons on the Selous Game Reserve
4. Signpost reading "Wildlife Corridor Selous-Niassa"
5. Pan of corridor
6. Niassa Game Reserve Director,...
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Conservation project to save rare giant lizards
AP Television
El Hierro Island (Canary Islands), November 26, 2011
1. Various shots of lizards
2. Various shots of landscape
3. Pan across valley to Tibataje cliff
4. Various shots of Tibataje cliff
5. Various shots of giant lizard in...
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Human scarab seen from space for climate change awareness
1. Aerial pan of an ancient Egyptian beetle symbol called a scarab holding a sun in its pinchers
2. Wide of volunteers forming the shape of the symbol
3. Volunteers forming the symbol
4. Wide of the circle
5. Wide of volunteers...
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Dangerous wildlife threatens US soldiers
1. Pest control specialist Michael Kubik puts on respirator
2. Preparing can of insecticide spray
3. Various of Kubik spraying insecticide around tents at Kandahar air base
4. Kubik picking up a scorpion with tweezers (the scorpion is...
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Animal review 2009
Kenya''s 2,000 lions are at grave risk from repeated drought and a poisonous pesticide that wildlife officials have blamed for 76 lion deaths since 2001.
In what has now become competition between man and beast for pastures, Maasai...
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+4:3 Number of Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico dropped 28.1 percent this year
FILE: Sierra Chincua, Michoacan - February 2011
1. Wide of butterflies flying among trees in woodland area
2. Close-up of monarch butterfly
3. Various of large number of butterflies settled in tree
4. Close-up of butterfly
5. Pan of...
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ENTERTAINMENT DAILY: ENT2- TATE MODERN
English/Nat
The long-awaited TATE MODERN opens its doors to the public for the first time on Friday 12th May.
The gallery houses Britain's remarkable collection of international twentieth century art, including works by FRANCIS BACON,...
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Yellow scorpions invade a Brazilian town
Campos, Brazil - recent
1. Various of scorpion on road
2. Various of health workers collecting scorpions
4. Various of scorpions in glass jar
5. Members from the Centre for Zoological Disease Control get ready to search house and...
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EGYPT: NEW PYRAMID BEER BREWING COMPANY IN BID TO BOOST SALES
English/Nat
Egypt has a long history of beer.
According to archaeologists, the Ancient Egyptians were very partial to a bottle or two.
But through the ages, its reputation has slumped so badly that now the new private owners of the...
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Asia's first artificial wetland park opens in Hong Kong
1. Various shots of Victoria Harbour
2. Exterior of Hong Kong Wetland Park
3. Close up lotus flower
4. Wide of lake
5. Bird landing on grass
6. Close up mudflat
7. Close up fiddler crabs
8. Close up of white bird
9. SOUNDBITE:...