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Tourists disappointed by sudden disappearance of ''Frisco''s sea lions
San Francisco, California - December
1. Various of empty pier
2. Close-up sea lions swimming
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramteen Rezai, tourist from Toronto:
"I was disappointed as soon as I realized they disappeared."
4. Close-up Pier 39...
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Isolated Siberian town shrivels after Soviet era
AP Television
Chersky, Russia - October 21 - 28, 2010
1. Wide aerial view of Chersky with plane propeller on left of shot
2. Close up of passenger looking out of plane window
3. Mid aerial view of Chersky
4. Mid of people getting out...
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S.Africa -Ivory&Abalone Shellfish Smugglers Caught
South African police said on Tuesday (9/5) they had arrested a
Chinese couple and a Hong Kong national for trying to smuggle 800
kg (1,760 lbs) of ivory and two tonnes of abalone shellfish to
Asia. Colonel Piet Lategan, commanding...
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The world's oceans this summer are hotter than they have ever been and it could feed hurricanes and harm coral, according to NOAA.
HEADLINE: World's oceans warmest on record
CAPTION: The world's oceans this summer are hotter than they have ever been and it could feed hurricanes and harm coral, according to NOAA. (Aug. 21)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
[Notes:beach/ocean...
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Ice carving competition at Helsinki Zoo
1. Wide, pan right of competition area showing artists carving ice sculptures
2. Close of artist using power tool
3. Wide of artist inspecting his sculpture
4. Mid of artist working on his project
5. Mid, set up shot of Finnish sculptor...
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USA: LOS ANGELES: SEA LIONS ARE LATEST VICTIMS OF EL NINO
English/Nat
Sea lions have become the latest victims of the El Nino effect which is being blamed for the relentless storms that have pounded California's coastline.
Deprived of squid and other nutrition due to the unnaturally warm ocean...
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A look at the region on the first anniversary of the devastating oil spill
AP Television
FILE: Gulf of Mexico - April 2010
1. Tilt down from smoke plumes over the Gulf of Mexico to flames where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded
2. Close-up of red, oil slicked water in the Gulf
3. Oil floating on top of water...
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Asian carp may be a plankton-gobbling nuisance threatening the Great Lakes, but Illinois officials on Thursday expressed hope in changing that perception one bite at a time.
Headline: Illinois launches Asian carp anti-hunger program
caption: Asian carp were imported from China and escaped into the Mississippi River in the 1970s and now Illinois officials want to stop this invasive species from entering the...
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Greenpeace dumps whale outside Japanese embassy
++Night shots++
1. Wide pan of Greenpeace banner and dead whale outside Japanese embassy
2. "Stop whaling!" banner over dead whale
3. Pan left dead whale
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Simon, Greenpeace member:
"This whale is here...
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SOUTH AFRICA: PENGUINS HIT BY OIL SPILL
English/Nat
A stretch of pristine coastline in Cape Town, South Africa, was coated in thick black sludge after a tanker sank, discharging 13-hundred tons of fuel into the ocean.
The ecological disaster prompted a massive operation to...
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Whale watchers gather to see the Southern Right Whale
1. Wide Gansbaai Harbour near Hermanus
2. Whale watching sign
3. Still picture showing whale breeching
4. Whale watching boat out at sea
5. Mid tourists on boat
6. Wide tourist looking through binoculars at whales
7. Whale at sea
8. Mid...
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US tourist injured in a shark attack, day after surfer killed
Zihuatanejo, Pantla beach, Mexico - 23 May 2008
1. Wide of Aldo Mata's body on beach, covered with sheet
2. Mid of girls crying
3. Wide of person crying next to body
4. Body being put on stretcher
5. Stretcher being carried up beach
6....
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Attempts to free beached whale
1. Pull out and pan from Sugar Loaf Mountain to wide of Jurujuba Beach, showing a tug boat helping to rescue whale
2. Wide of whale on the beach
3. Close up of whale breathing
4. Wide of rescue workers trying to help the whale
5....
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Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her decades-old dream thwarted, more than anything else, by jellyfish.
HEADLINE:Raw Video: Nyad ends Cuba-to-Fla. swim
CAPTION: Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her decades-old dream thwarted, more than anything else, by jellyfish. (Aug. 21) ...
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Greenpeace protest outside Japan's embassy over whaling, arrests
1. Medium of Greenpeace activists walking up to the Japanese embassy in Mexico City
2. Medium of activists approaching embassy carrying sheets of cardboard
3. Wide exterior of Japanese embassy with activists holding up banner
4. Medium...
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Australian says she will not make another attempt to cross Florida Straits
Key West, Florida - June 13, 2013
1. Wide of long distance swimmer Chloe McCardel leaving the cabin of a boat
2. Tilt-up Chloe McCardel. UPSOUND (English): "It was two and a half hours of the worst pain, continuously, every second, of my...
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GALAPAGOS ISLAND: TANKER CREW ARRESTED LATEST
English/Nat
The captain and crew of a stricken tanker that has spilled at least 185-thousand gallons of diesel into the fragile marine environment of the Galapagos Islands have been arrested pending formal criminal charges.
Meanwhile,...
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A story of the survival of a young sea lion
Punta Negra Beach, near Lima - October 14, 2007
1. Close up of sea lion
2. Tilt up of sea lion
3. Medium shot of sea lion exiting the rehabilitation room
4. Medium shot of sea lion being directed backwards
5. Medium shot of sea lion...
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Locals divided over casino company's plans to lure tourists to tiny archipelago
Residents of a small chain of Bahamas islands renowned for their unspoilt nature and remoteness remain divided over plans to develop the area into a grand casino destination estimated to cost some 300 (m) million US dollars.
Bimini, an...
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JAPAN: UENO ZOO: PENGUINS LET OUT OF CAGE
Japanese/Nat
The penguins of Ueno Zoo in Tokyo are getting an unexpected break this Christmas.
Figuring that the flightless, short-legged creatures won't be going anywhere fast, soft-hearted zoo keepers have started letting the aquatic...
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Mexico claims climate change sending whales to coastal waters
1. Pull out, grey whale approaching boat
2. Close up of grey whale rolling in the water
3. Man watching sea, pan to another boat
4. People in a boat reach out to touch a whale as its head comes out of the water
5. Whale rolling...
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Opening of IWC meeting, Aus, NZ, Japanese comment
1. Various of meeting
2. Close up of sign reading 59th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission, Anchorage Alaska 2007"
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Minister for Environment and Water Resources:
"I'm...
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Greenpeace activists protest near hotel where ICCAT meeting held
1. Greenpeace's tuna mobile and activists surrounded by police just across from the hotel where the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) meeting is held, pan and tilt up to activist on high fence
2....