2Min News Roundup (HD)

2Min News Roundup (HD)

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  • Toothy fish discovery, comeback foxes & a sad end for rare desert lions

    California’s island foxes bounce back, herpetologists in Peru make a colourful new discovery, a major blow for a population of rare giraffes in the DRC, famous desert lions meet a tragic end in Namibia & why is a toothy South American fish popping up in Michigan?

    News Sources:
    • ISLAND FOXES BOUNCE BACK
    • SLEEPING BEAUTY FROG
    • SAD END FOR ELLIE
    • RARE GIRAFFE KILLED 
    • DESERT LIONS POISONED
    • SPEAR HUNTING BAN
    • PREDATOR PARTY
    • TOOTHY FISH SPOTTED 
    • 3 min
    • Siberia’s mine ‘demon’, rhino CPR & good news for great white sharks

      A bizarre Siberian find, life-saving rhino CPR, a 10,000-kilometre journey to save elephants, why Alaska’s famous wolf pack is no more & the very, VERY long life of the Greenland shark. All those stories and more coming your way in this week’s blast of nature news.

      News Sources:
      • WHALE RESCUE SUCCESS
      • WHITE SHARK REBOUND
      • GREENLAND SHARK CENTENARIANS
      • BANFF WOLF DECLINE
      • MARCH FOR ELEPHANTS UNDERWAY
      • RHINO CPR
      • EAGLE RESCUE
      • MINE MUMMY
      • 3 min
      • Women for elephants, volcano smileys & a daring leopard rescue

        A dramatic leopard rescue in India, manatees make a comeback in Guadeloupe, an all-female team sets off on a 100-day expedition to raise awareness for Africa's elephants, the EU blacklists 37 invasive species and a bald eagle attacks a trio of osprey chicks!

        News Sources:
        • DARING RESCUE
        • MANATEE COMEBACK
        • EU SPECIES BLACKLIST
        • ELEPHANT POPULATION DECLINE
        • ELEPHANT IGNITE EXPEDITION
        • DANGEROUS SEA CREATURES
        • EAGLE ATTACKS OSPREY
        • SMILEY VOLCANO
        • 3 min
        • Dragon ants, rhino rescues & a whale-sized shark feast

          Rescuers save six baby rhinos from catastrophic floods in India, two new ant species named after Game of Thrones dragons, a ranger arrested for poaching in South Africa, New York’s corpse flower blooms for the first time in 80 years and a whale-sized feast for sharks in Australia!

          News Sources:
          • RANGER ARRESTED FOR POACHING
          • FAMOUS TIGER DISAPPEARS
          • BABY RHINOS RESCUED
          • CORPSE FLOWER BLOOMS
          • DRAGON ANTS
          • WHALE CARCASS FEAST
          • NEW WHALE SPECIES
          • DEEP-SEA BLOB
          • 3 min
          • A panda first, bye-bye sonar & a boar on a rampage

            Life gets quieter for whales as the US Navy is barred from using sonar, China welcomes the year’s first panda cub born through natural breeding, an ambitious project to scan every fish species & a rampaging wild boar sends beachgoers scrambling!

            News Sources:
            • WIN FOR WHALES
            • NEWBORN PANDA CUB
            • BLUE TANG BREEDING
            • DIGITISING THE PLANET’S FISH
            • MEXICO BANS GILLNETS
            • VIRAL VIDEOS DESTROYING RABBIT ISLAND
            • PINOCCHIO LIZARD
            • RAMPAGING WILD BOAR
            • 3 min
            • Rare whale encounter, M&M’s for ferrets & a massive ivory haul

              The Great Barrier Reef experiences the worst coral bleaching in history, a runaway lion is recaptured in South Africa, the mysterious coelacanth gets important new protections, a woman in Florida comes face to face with a panther and why is Japan still hunting whales for research purposes?

              News Sources:
              • MASSIVE IVORY HAUL
              • M&M FIRING DRONES
              • FAKE TURTLE EGGS
              • BOWIE THE KOALA
              • GIANT CLAM POACHING
              • TRAPPED BEAR
              • BRYDE’S WHALE ENCOUNTER
              • 3 min
              • Fighting Zika with bats, red apes in trouble & a spine-chilling elephant attack

                A rare primate in Borneo lands up on the IUCN's critically endangered list, Thailand moves to ban tiger breeding in private zoos, how a US town is preventing a Zika outbreak using mosquito-munching bats and a stranded whale calf rescued in Canada.

                News Sources:
                • BABY BELUGA RESCUE
                • ORANGUTANS IN TROUBLE
                • TIGER BREEDING BAN
                • MOSQUITO MUNCHERS
                • GLOWING, GLOWING, GONE!
                • ELEPHANT CHARGE!
                • 3 min
                • 7 amazing new species discovered in 2016

                  Scientists estimate that there are still 10 million species on earth waiting to be discovered — and 2016 has already brought us some amazing new finds. We’ve chosen our favourites for this special edition of 2Min roundup!

                  News Sources:
                  • GIANT SWIMMING CENTIPEDE
                  • DANCING SPIDERS
                  • CRYPTOMASTER BEHEMOTH
                  • SILVER SNAKE
                  • CHAMELEON-LIKE LIZARD
                  • PREHISTORIC MONSTER-SIZE CROCODILE
                  • ADORABLE OCTOPOD
                  • 2 min
                  • Ancient forest in trouble, a win for sharks & underwear-stealing kites

                    Hope for an ancient forest as the EU investigates logging plans in Poland, millions of seahorses seized in Peru, why kites are stealing underwear in Scotland and could California outlaw captive orcas?

                    News Sources:
                    • SHARK FIN SHIPMENT BAN
                    • ENDING ORCA CAPTIVITY
                    • SEAHORSES SEIZED
                    • PANGOLIN RESCUE
                    • LOGGING SCANDAL
                    • UNDERWEAR-STEALING KITES
                    • TERRIFYING RHINO CHARGE
                    • 3 min
                    • First US dolphin sanctuary, a climate-change casualty & a whale-sized rescue

                      A whale stranding in Indonesia prompts a mass rescue operation, hope for one of the world’s rarest birds, captive dolphins in the US set for early retirement in ocean refuge & a close-up look at a mega-mouthed giant!

                      News Sources:
                      • MASS WHALE STRANDING
                      • NORWAY'S WHALE HUNT
                      • DOLPHINS EARN EARLY RETIREMENT
                      • TINY RODENT DECLARED EXTINCT
                      • HOPE FOR RARE BIRDS
                      • VETS FIGHT TO SAVE CALF
                      • BASKING SHARK SIGHTING
                      • 3 min

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