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Harvest time in Portugal's cork oak forests
Alentejo region - September 2008
1. Wide cork oak forest
2. Mid men with axes cutting in to cork oak bark
3. Wide man stripping a piece of bark from tree
4. Various forestry producer and farm owner, Antonio Goncalves Ferreira...
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BOSNIA: TIMBER INDUSTRY HIT BY NEGLECT DURING WAR YEARS
Serbo-Croat/French/Nat
Hopes of repairing Bosnia's war-ravaged economy have been hit by news that one of its most important economic assets is literally rotting away.
Forestry used to be one of Bosnia's biggest industries.
But after...
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Egypt - Irrigation project
Since ancient times Egyptians have only inhabited the narrow band of fertile land along the Nile. Now the Egyptian Government is undertaking a massive land reclamation project to help curb the overpopulation of Nile valley and delta....
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More than 100 large fires have swept across parts of the nation already this year, and the head of the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday the rest of the 2012 fire season is expected to be just as active as last year''s. (
HEADLINE: Feds prepare for another busy fire season
CAPTION: More than 100 large fires have swept across parts of the nation already this year, and the head of the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday the rest of the 2012 fire season is...
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The plight of the spotted owl
23 January, 2012 - Eugene, Oregon
1. Close up Northern spotted owl.
2. Wide Northern spotted owl in aviary
23 January, 2012 - Corvallis, Oregon
3. Various of Eric Forsman in the forest.
4. Mid of mossy forest growth.
5. Close up of...
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A look at Japanese food culture after traditional cuisine added to priceless heritage list
Washoku, the traditional cuisine of Japan, was given world cultural heritage status by the United Nations on Wednesday.
French cooking is the only other cuisine that had been distinguished as a national culinary tradition.
The Japanese...
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New campaign to save tiger
Daylight, July 15, 2003
1. Various shots of Royal Bengal tiger in the forest at the tiger reserve
2. Various of tiger skins recovered from poachers by forest
3. Poachers and close shot of tiger skin with bullet holes
4. Honey collector...
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VIETNAM: COFFEE CROP UNDER THREAT FROM SEVERE DROUGHT
Vietnamese/Nat
Vietnam's export coffee crop, which it says is the fourth largest in the world, is withering as farmers struggle to save their plants from the worst drought of the century.
The country's central highlands, the scene of...
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Latest day and night pictures of forest fires
1. Mid of burning structure with forest fire in background
2. Close-up of burning structure
3. Wide of house with flames near it
4. Wide of burning hillside
5. Wide of burning forest
6. Wide of flames
7. Wide of fire truck and...
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A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has become far worse than initially though crept toward the coast Thursday as government officials offered help from the military to prevent a disaster that could destroy fragile marshlands along the shore.
HEADLINE: BP would welcome feds' help in oil cleanup
CAPTION: A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has become far worse than initially though crept toward the coast as government officials offered help from the military...
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California forest managers are trying to stop chainsaw-wielding poachers who are targeting ancient redwood trees in national and state parks. The thieves are cutting off the trees' burls - knobby growths prized for their rich wood grains. (April 14)
SOUNDBITE: Jeff Denny, park ranger, Redwood National & State Parks
"These are invaluable resources, irreplaceable resources, that are being taken out of the public's hands for a very quick, very limited private...
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WRAP Arrivals,Bush with Asian leaders, ADDS Howard global warming statement
1. Mid of US President George W. Bush walking up stairs and shaking hands with Australian Prime Minister John Howard and heading to meeting
2. Mid of Russian President Vladimir Putin walking up stairs and shaking hands with Howard
3....
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A rainforest just a short distance from Vancouver explored
Every year, thousands of people from around the world come to the west coast of Canada to explore rainforests near the city of Vancouver.
A number of tour companies welcome guests on tours of the forest canopy.
Lynn Canyon Park on...
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air force forestry officer
print "forestry" shows: forestry officer diging: hand planting tree: sof inter view with the man, capt paul ebersbach: palnting equipment thru field: palnting machine: inside...
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Mapping the urban landscape with new app
San Francisco, California - October 19, 2012
1. Low angle Gordon Matassa approaching a tree
2. Matassa measuring tree trunk and inputting data on iPhone
3. Close shot iPhone
4. Low angle Matassa
5. Long shot street
6. SOUNDBITE...
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Cyprus forest fire still raging out of control
A huge forest fire believed to be among the largest Cyprus has ever battled continued to rage out of control for a third day in the mountains southwest of the island's capital of Nicosia and has claimed the life of a second firefighter,...
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U.S. Officials condemned actions announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin to increase the country's ICBM arsenal, as well as continued Chinese militarization of islands in the South China Sea. (June 17)
Amid continuing tensions with the West over Ukraine, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has revealed his country will add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its arsenal this year alone - weapons said to be capable of...
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Pentagon: China expanding in South China Sea
A new Pentagon report says China has reclaimed more than 3,200 acres (1300 hectares) of land in the southeastern South China Sea. But the country's focus has shifted to developing and weaponising those man-made islands so it will have...
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Meeting the tiny monkeys saved from extinction
BRAZIL MONKEYSSOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 5:49SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionSilva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil - 27 June...
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ONLY ON AP Saving myanmar's disappearing forests
The hills of northern Myanmar's Sagaing region were so legendarily thick with forests that in the days of kings, condemned criminals were ordered into the woods as a death sentence. Today illegal logging has left vast swaths of bare...
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Newly restored tomb of Jesus opens for Easter
MIDEAST HOLY SEPULCHRESOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESSRESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 6:19SHOTLIST:Associated PressJerusalem - 3 April 20171. Tracking shot of interior of Holy Sepulchre leading to the Jesus' Tomb2. Tracking shot of workers...
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Scientists use massive river model to fight erosion
LEADIN:
US Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion that threatens Louisiana's coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River.
The multi-million US dollar...