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Big smiles all round at Crocodile park
MOROCCO CROCO PARK SOURCE: AP TELEVISIONRESTRICTIONS: MIDDLE EAST EXTRA CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 4:53SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionAgadir, Morocco –15 August 20161. Various of Crocoparc entrance2. Mid of crocodile swimming in water3. Crocodiles...
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Crocodiles kept as pets in Nubian village
LEADIN:
Crocodiles have become a popular pet for a village in southern Egypt.
The local Nubians keep them to entice tourists to visit.
STORYLINE:
Welcoming little fishes in with...
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Germany - Fossils Discovered In Mining Area
A former coal mining area which industrialists wanted to turn into a chemical waste dump has proved a valuable source of fossils, following its rescue by environmentalists. The Pit Messel, which has yielded many fossils of scientific...
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Wildlife shelter offers a refuge for indigenous animals in need
A South African shelter seeking to help indigenous creatures is on a mission to save those that stray into city suburbs.
An orphaned water mongoose, dozens of meerkats handed in by people who tried keeping them as pets and several bats...
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Crocodile farm making goods for snappy dressers in Tehran
The crocodiles at this farm are snapping up a storm in Iran.
Breeding crocodiles was forbidden under the country's Islamic laws until 2006, when top clerics approved the practice.
Now, visitors are sinking their teeth into the...
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Babies of Cold War era crocs to return to Cuba
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLISTAP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Stockholm - 15 April 20151. Various of original couple of Cuban crocodiles, Hillary and Castro, inside enclosure that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro gave to...
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Family of late 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin is returning to Animal Planet
FAMILY OF LATE 'CROCODILE HUNTER' BACK AT ANIMAL PLANET
The Irwin family is returning to television's Animal Planet, 11 years after the death of "The Crocodile Hunter" star and family patriarch Steve Irwin.
...
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Prehistoric crocodile fossils discovered
1. Wide press conference
2. Wide schoolteacher Joao Arruda at presser
3. Wide view of screen showing a photograph of the fossil site
4. Wide view of screen showing Arruda at the site
5. Palaeontologists carrying reproduction of ancient...
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SOUTH AFRICA: POLICE CRACK REPTILE SMUGGLING NETWORK
English/Nat
South African police have cracked an illegal reptile smuggling network with links to the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Colombia and Madagascar.
Adders, pythons and scorpions were seized in a night raid which ended...
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Crocodiles thriving in nuclear cooling canals
AP Television
Homestead, Florida, US - November 29, 2011
1. Mid of air boat at sunset
2. Close of air boat pilot
3. Mid low shot of biologists in air boat
4. Mid of biologist trying and failing to snare crocodile
5. Close of foot on...
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Russia/Ukraine - Animal Rescue Operation
Russia's struggling economy is taking its toll on some of Moscow's most vulnerable residents: its animals. Many animal owners, from pet owners to circuses, simply cannot afford to care properly for their animals. In one Moscow park,...
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Crocodiles caught in resort town following heavy rains
At least eight crocodiles have been captured around the coastal city of Acapulco over the past few days, after they were left stranded inland following massive storms that hit the area in September.
Civil protection authorities captured...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: EXOTIC ANIMALS ARE BEING SMUGGLED THROUGH AIRPORT
Russian/Nat
Moscow's international airport is a gateway for the world's smugglers to a lucrative market for exotic pets. It's geography also means that there are frequent flights from Africa and Asia from where many of the animals...
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THAILAND: POLICE RAID BACKSTREET SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Thai/Nat
Thai authorities have raided and closed a backstreet slaughterhouse that was
supplying the illegal market in exotic foods.
The vast haul of animals included pythons, monitor lizards and turtles.
But, the police concede, it was...
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South Africa - New reptile park opens
On the banks of the Crocodile River near Nelspruit in
north-east Johannesburg a new park has been opened dedicated to
exhibiting one of the largest collections of reptiles in the
world.
Besides the glass tanks is a pond which has been...
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Search for missing animals after devastation caused by cyclone Larry
1. Cyclone victim Margaret Tabone holding wallaby
2. Close-up of wallaby (wallaby's name is Zoe)
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Margaret Tabone, cyclone victim:
"Yeah, I've got one that I reared up, she was a little pinkie, and her mother died...
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VENEZUELA: CAYMAN CROCODILES RELEASED INTO WILD
English/Nat
In Apure State in Venezuela, researchers have been busy releasing Orinoco cayman crocodiles back into their natural habitat.
It is part of a project set up ten years ago by Venezuelan environmentalists to save the most...
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Costa Rica's recycling failure
Costa Rica's Playa Azul, or Blue Beach, is anything but because of the massive amounts of rubbish and debris that wash up on its shores.The beach is located at the mouth of the Tarcoles River on the Pacific Ocean which has been polluted...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : PETA protests the treatment of crocodiles in Vietnam
Animal rights organisation PETA staged a protest on Thursday in front of luxury fashion store Louis Vuitton on the Champs Elysees in Paris
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Sudan’s oldest nature reserve now popular tourist destination
LEADIN:Dinder National Park is considered one of Sudan's most beautiful nature reserves.But it's only in recent years that it has started to operate successfully as a popular tourism spot.STORYLINE:Dinder National Park was established in...
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Crocodile fed tasty treats as part of colourful festival
LEADIN:
A crocodile is taking centre stage at a festival in Karachi celebrating the patron saint of Pakistan's Sheedi community.
The animal is fed tasty treats and covered with garlands at the ceremony which...