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Octopus learns to use children's building blocks
1. Octopus keeper, Catherine Cservenka, walking towards octopus enclosure
2. Mid of Cservenka entering octopus enclosure
3. Wide of tank with Ollie the Octopus swimming in it
4. Close up Ollie at top of tank
5. Mid of father and child...
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A museum dedicated to green themes
San Francisco, recent
1. California Academy of Sciences Exterior
2. California Academy of Sciences Sign
3. Aquarium Wide
4. Aquarium Close
5. Jellyfish Wide
6. Jellyfish Close
7. Aquarium Tunnel
8. Large Freshwater Fish
9....
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Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo will open a new penguin exhibit in early May. In this video essay, AP Photographer Ted Warren introduces us to the penguins and their new habitat for the first time.
HEADLINE: Video Essay: Penguins introduced to new home
CAPTION: Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo will open a new penguin exhibit in early May. In this video essay, AP Photographer Ted Warren introduces us to the penguins and their new...
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Fishermen build concrete reefs to replace dead coral
AP Television
Waters near Tumpaan village, North Sulawesi, 7 May 2011
1. Wide of ocean with healthy coral reefs
2. Close up of fish around reefs
3. Mid of healthy coral
4. Close up of fish
AP Television
Tumpaan, North Sulawesi, 8 May...
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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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Bangladesh is a conservation hotspot for some species of dolphins and whales
Dhaka, 11-12 October 2008
1. Wideshot of Sadarghat wharf on the Buriganga (Ganges) river in Dhaka
2. Midshot of wharf
3. Tightshot of boats
4. Midshot of row boats
5. Midshot of big passenger steamer pulls in
6. Tightshot of crowds on...
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Whale shark in Atlanta gets checkup from team of doctors
HEADLINE: 'World's Largest Fish' Gets Physical
CAPTION: Scientists got their closest look ever at one of the world's biggest fish - with about 50 staffers, a stretcher that could hold a small bus and a hose pumping liquid anesthetic....
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Japanese scientists filmed a live giant squid - once thought of as creatures only in legends.
HEADLINE: Caught on tape The legenday giant squid
CAPTION: Japanese scientists filmed a live giant squid - once thought of as creatures only in legends. (Dec. 22)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
[Notes:giant squid getting caught]
They're the...
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MEXICO: MEXICO CITY: STAR OF FREE WILLY IS FINALLY RESCUED
Spanish/Nat
Biologists are making last-minute preparations to whisk Keiko, the killer whale star of "Free Willy", out of a cramped tank in Mexico City to a new life in the United States.
A team of whale experts are getting the 21-foot,...
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Experts along the Gulf are concerned that oil may kill off an essential type of algae that fish rely on for shelter and food. One biologist says sargassum, which is commonly known as algae or sea holly, has been washing up on Alabama beaches, making it unavailable to marine life.
HEADLINE: Biologist: Gulf oil threatens fish shelter, food source
CAPTION: Experts along the Gulf are concerned that oil may kill off an essential type of algae that fish rely on for shelter and food. One biologist says sargassum,...
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Zoo studies the way dolphins navigate by listening
Vancouver Aquarium - 23rd October 2008
1. Dolphin trainers turn dolphin on its side, remove eye cup, whistle, and gesture to the animal.
2. Dolphin on its side, trainer removes eye cup, feeds fish to animal.
3. Visitors to the aquarium...
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USA: WASHINGTON: 31ST SMITHSONIAN KITE FESTIVAL
English/Nat
It's springtime in Washington and one of the best ways to celebrate fly a kite.
The 31st annual Smithsonian kite festival took place on the Mall of the Nation's Capital Saturday.
People came from all over the country, even...
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The biologically diverse Barataria Bay in Louisiana has become the epicenter of the oil spill. Local fisherman are upset and fear that the wildlife and fisheries will be wiped out altogether threatening the livelihood of all who depend on this already endangered estuary.
HEADLINE: Barataria estuary now ground zero in oil spill
CAPTION: The biologically diverse Barataria Bay in Louisiana has become the epicenter of the oil spill. Local fisherman are upset and fear that the wildlife and fisheries will...
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WRAP Greenpeace activists protest near ICCAT meeting; File of tuna
Paris, France - 19 November, 2010
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...
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About 600,000 people per year now visit Boulders Beach which boasts that it is the only place in the world where people can swim with penguins.
HEADLINE: Can man-made homes save Africa's penguins?
CAPTION: Africa's penguin population has plummeted from around 3 million in the 1930s to just 120,000 because of excessive, heat overfishing and pollution. Now park rangers are trying...
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Museum presents natural history exhibition alongside major art works
This week, Madrid's Prado Museum presents a curious series of installations juxtaposing the museum's major art works with the original idea for the building's use as a natural history museum.
When it was commissioned by Charles III in...
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Smart design to help the poor and the environment
Pahang - 4 October, 2012
1. Close up of a pumpkin flower
2. Various shots of Norlailawati Yusof, working inside green house
3. SOUNDBITE: (Malay) Norlailawati Yusof, villager working in greenhouse:
" I am very happy here because my...
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Polar bears threatening by retreating sea ice
West-coast of Svalbard, Norway (within Arctic Circle) June 12 -15, 2008
1. Wide ship sails through thin ice
2. Mid ship's antennae
3. Mid ship's captain
4. Wide ship approaches ice
5. Wide cruise ship sails past
6. Mid same
7. Mid set...
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Totem pole building revived in Canada
AP Television
First Nations Longhouse, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada - 22 August 2012
1. Wide tilt down on Haida totem pole carver, Clarence Mills, drawing on Thunderbird totem pole.
2. Medium over the shoulder shot of Mills...
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The federal government has fined SeaWorld Orlando $75,000 on Monday for three violations uncovered while investigating the February death of a trainer who was grabbed by a killer whale and dragged underwater.
HEADLINE: SeaWorld fined $75,000 for whale trainer's death
CAPTION: The federal government has fined SeaWorld Orlando $75,000 on Monday for three violations uncovered while investigating the February death of a trainer who was grabbed by...
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MALAYSIA: FRESHWATER FISHERIES DEVELOP NEW BREED OF FISH
English/Nat
Scientists in Malaysia are trying to come up with a bigger, tastier freshwater fish.
Dwindling marine fish stocks and pollution have seen many Malaysian's adding freshwater fish to their diet.
And they look set to remain on...
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UK octopus plays with Lego
Program version at 11:04:37
HEADLINE: Giant octopus plays with Lego
CAPTION: Marine animal experts have come up with a novel way of entertaining a giant octopus named 'Ollie' at a sea life park in England. They let him play with blocks...
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A museum dedicated to green themes
United States, San Francisco, recent
1.California Academy of Sciences Exterior
2.California Academy of Sciences Sign
3.Wide of aquarium
4.Close of aquarium tank
5.Close of .Jellyfish
6.Wide of aquarium tunnel
7. Close up of...
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BLACK PEARL FARMING IN THE SEYCHELLES
Black pearl cultivation is a family business for the Seychelles' only pearl farm.
The rarity of the marine gems make them a prize worth diving.
The rare black pearl is one of the ocean's most-prized jewels.
Pristine waters are an...