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Explore the Rainforest! Ecology for Kids
It's raining where Jessi and Squeaks live, so they decided to bust out some books and read up on a special kind of forest where it rains almost every day!
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More than 100 world leaders leaders pledge to end deforestation by 2030
More than 100 global leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade as part of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
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Germany - Co2 Emissions Meter, China - Xinjiang Oil, Nigeria - Oil, Brazil: Rainforest Animals, Thailand: Rainforest
Germany - CO2 Emissions meter
Berlin - 31 March 1995 and file
1. Large CO2 emission meter set up by Friends of the Earth in city centre
China - Xinjiang Oil
Desert in Xinjiang Province - 26 May 1995
1. WS truck riding, oil wells in...
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Sarawak: Forests, Brazil - Balbina
EF307A - Sarawak: Forests
Sarawak and Japan - 31 December 1990 and file
As much as 68 per cent of Japan is covered with forest, making it the most forest-rich nation in the world. And yet Japanese companies are importing vast quantities...
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Algeria: Desert, Eritrea - Reforestation, Indonesia - Forest Development, China - Reforestation, Mozambique: Dam
EF211 D - Algeria: Desert
Algeria - 1989
A tree-planting programme initiated in Algeria 20 years ago to hold back the drifting sands of the Sahara Desert is nearing completion. A vast area once threatened with desertification has been...
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Buckingham Palace transformed by rainforest projection
A rainforest design was projected on the facade of Buckingham Palace on Sunday night, as part of a global conservation initiative led by Queen Elizabeth II.
The projection of exotic trees will light up the building as...
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Forest burns in Brazil's Amazon
Forest fires on Tuesday continued to burn in Rondonia state, part of Brazil's Amazon territory.
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Firefighters struggle to contain Amazon fire
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Fashion retailer H and M suspends leather purchases from Brazil in response to Amazon fires
FASHION RETAILER H&M SUSPENDS LEATHER PURCHASES FROM BRAZIL IN RESPONSE TO AMAZON FIRES
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Chocolate industry tackles deforestation
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As Easter approaches many people are stocking up on chocolate eggs to feast on during the festivities.
But environmental groups are encouraging consumers to be eco-savvy and think about the origins...
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Scientists study the threatened Atlantic Rainforest with electron microscope
1. Rio de Janeiro Botanical Gardens showing water fountain and palm trees
2. Close up of fountain
3. Pan from Botanical Gardens to fountain
4. Tilt down from mountain with Christ statue to fountain
5. Water lilies
6. Tilt up from lake...
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INDONESIA: FOREST DEVELOPMENT TEAM TEST NEW RE-PLANTING SCHEME
East Kalimantan, Indonesia - March 7th and 8th, 1996
1. WS women cultivating seedlings
2. CU woman with seedlings
3. Two women with seedlings
5. WS trees being knocked down in forests
6. CU of loggers sawing wood from tree
7. WS...
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HRW: Criminal networks driving Amazon deforestation
Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week that deforestation in the Amazon is driven by criminal networks and it blamed Brazil's government for failing to protect the rainforest and the people trying to protect it.
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Smithsonian announces discovery of previously unknown mammal
1. Wide of news conference
2. Close of two stuffed Olinguito
3. Skull of Olinguito held in hand
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristofer Helgen, Curator of Mammals, Smithsonian Institutions:
"There it is. Now, you have not seen this animal...
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Battling desertification in South Africa
AP Television
Eastern Cape Province, South Africa - August 25, 2011
1. Wide of Karoo drylands
2. Close of Karoo drylands
Cape Town, South Africa - 31 August, 2011
3. Mid of Professor Timm Hoffman at work
4. Close of computer screen
5....
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'Worst smelling flower' blossoms in Belgium
'WORST SMELLING FLOWER' BLOSSOMS IN BELGIUM Visitors were flocking on Tuesday (11 APRIL 2017) to a botanic garden in the Belgian city of Meise to sniff one of the worst smelling flowers in the world.The flower, which is formally known as...
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Peru's environment minister talks about causes of deforestation
Decades of illegal gold mining have transformed large expanses of virgin Peruvian rainforest into pocked, denuded, mercury-poisoned wastelands.
Excavations to separate gold flecks from tons of earth have left holes big enough to swallow...
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Bio dome brings tropical rain forest climate to the desert
UAE GREEN PLANETSOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 4.28SHOTLIST:Dubai, UAE - 1 September 20161. Zoom out from toucan to wide of...
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Madagascar - Efforts to save shrinking rainforest
Intensive efforts are being made to save the unique but rapidly shrinking rain forest of the island of Madagascar, home to some of the greatest bio-diversity in the world. Only 15 per cent of the forest is now left, after a 35-year...