2Min News Roundup (HD)

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2Min News Roundup (HD) episodes

May 16, 2014Trespassing pythons, a shark C-section & big bear surgery
We’re wrapping up a week of nature news with groundbreaking bear surgery, a python home invasion and the questionable ethics of an impromptu shark C-section. There’s also a dose of positive news on animal welfare, with a host of companies in the UK pledging more transparency when it comes to animal testing. All of those stories and more in our latest two-minute roundup.
News Sources:
UK ANIMAL TESTING
PYTHON SURPRISE
SOCIAL MEDIA WOLF
SHARK C-SECTION
BEAR SURGERY
JAMMING BABY OWLS
NUDIBRANCH HEART BEEAT
3 min
May 09, 2014Baby wombats, mountaineering bears & a big win for wildlife
From an upsetting rhino poaching update from Nepal to some more cheerful nature news, including a new (and massive!) marine sanctuary, a manta rescue and an important (and extremely adorable) wombat arrival at an Australian zoo.
News Sources:
NEW MARINE RESERVE BIGGEST ON EARTH
POACHERS KILL 1-HORNED RHINO IN NEPAL
CHINA BANS EATING OF ENDANGERED SPECIES
MANTA RESCUE
WOMBAT BORN
BLACK BEARS CAN CLIMB!
3 min
May 02, 2014Ivory crushing, pangolin poaching & a royal call to end wildlife trafficking
In this special 2-min roundup episode, we're zooming in on wildlife trafficking. From Indonesia's groundbreaking Fatwa and British royalty standing up for wildlife, to Kenya's stiffer sentences for poachers and Interpol's call to end the tiger-part trade, here's a rundown of the biggest wildlife trafficking stories making headlines this year.
News Sources:
PRINCE CHARLES & PRINCE HARRY
INDONESIAN FATWA AGAINST TRAFFICKING
KENYA - NEW, HIGH PENALTIES FOR POACHING
BURNING IVORY STOCKS (FRANCE)
BURNING IVORY STOCKS (CHINA)
INTERPOL WANTS TO END TIGER TRADE
PANGOLINS
3 min
April 25, 2014Boobies, turtle tumours & a chortling bear
News Sources:
RANGER AT VIRUNGA PARK SHOT
RHINO HORNS STOLEN FROM SA TOURISM
BOOBIES ON THE DECLINE
HOBO SPIDERS NOT VENOMOUS
TUMOUR TURTLE IS BETTER
BEAR CUB MYSTERY
3 min
April 17, 2014Baby bats, muddy anteaters and a South African Easter Bunny
From baby sloths and muddy pangolins, to tiny bats, polar bear cubs, and even a South African Easter Bunny, get all the cute you can handle in this special spring edition of our weekly nature news roundup. Prepare for two minutes of 'awwww' ...
News Sources:
2-TOED SLOTH
POLAR BEAR CUTENESS
RESCUED COUGAR KITTENS
BABY BATS
PANGOLINS
MICHAEL JACKSON ARMADILLO
ELLIE MOM RESCUES BABY
RIVERINE RABBIT
3 min
April 11, 2014Pangolin poaching, lion-proof fences & weta wilding
Can ‘living walls’ save lions? What’s the most trafficked animal in the world? What did surfing pro Kelly Slater spot in the water recently? And just how creepy-looking are the wetapunga? All the answers in this week’s roundup of nature news from around the world.
News Sources:
JAPAN STOPS ANTARCTIC WHALING
SNOWY OWL GETS A NEW WING
PANOGLINS TRAFFICKED
CHINESE ORCHIDS
KELLY SLATER: SURFING/SHARK
LIVING WALLS
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3 min
April 04, 2014Turtle surgery, octopus births & a monster croc
Good news: no more orangutan shows at Universal Studios. Bad news: Cincinatti Zoo has lost a rare Sumatran rhino. Add monster croc relocations, pioneering tumour treatments for turtles and a death-defying pigeon and that’s your roundup of the week's nature news.

News Sources:
SUMATRAN RHINO DEATH
BIGGEST CROC EVER
DWARF OCTOPUS BORN
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS STOPS USING ANIMAL ACTORS
TURTLE EYE SURGERY
DEATH DEFYING PIGEONS
3 min
March 28, 2014Moose SOS, condor cuteness & elephants on the pill
From creative conservation tactics (like surrogate condor moms in the form of feather dusters) to birth control for elephants and the urgent efforts to save birds from the Texas oil spill, here's your weekly dose of wildlife news in just two minutes.
News Sources:
GALVESTON OIL SPILL
CONDOR CHICKS & FEATHER DUSTER
BABY MOOSE
SHARK CULL UPDATE
ELEPHANT CONTRACEPTION
CLEPTOPUS
EARTH HOUR
3 min
March 20, 2014Marching for lions, venom painkillers & a gorilla c-section
This week we tracked the global protest marches against canned lion hunting, feasted our eyes on some awesome discoveries, cheered the US’s first wilderness law since 2009 and lost our hearts to a baby gorilla born by C-section at the San Diego Zoo. Here’s your wildlife news all wrapped up in just two minutes.
News Sources:
CANNED LION HUNT MARCH
WARREN BUFFET DONATES TONS OF MOOLA TO RHINOS
CONGRESS APPROVES NEW WILDERNESS AREA
NEW LIZARD SPECIES DISCOVERED
SPIDER & LA DIG DISCOVERIES
SNAIL VENOM
BABY GORILLA C-SECTION
3 min
March 14, 2014Shark tracking, K9 conservation & a lemur selfie
Elephants can tell more about you than you ever thought possible, a great white shark named Lydia is setting some records and lemurs take better selfies than Ellen. All these stories from the world of nature (and how to out-science those pesky climate-change skeptics) wrapped up in just two minutes.

News Sources:
LYDIA THE SHARK
GLOBAL WARMING APP
EUROPE APPROVES VULTURE-KILLING DRUG
ELEPHANTS CAN RECOGNISE VOICES:
PANTHER RELEASED INTO THE WILD
TORTOISE-TRACKING DOG
LEMUR TAKES SELFIE
3 min