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Today we're gonna talk about climate change and wildlife facts.
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So who's got some things to talk about?
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Leekei: Um, I think you should go first
because I don't have a lot of facts.
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It's actually a story.
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It's more story that I have to share.
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JENN: Okay.
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Well, I just, I have a
couple of positive facts.
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I have some negative facts.
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I have some weird things and so maybe
I'll just, I'll just share two for now
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and then we can go around and you can
tell your story and Aji you can share.
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How does that sound?
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OLABANJI: Sounds great.
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JENN: Okay, so here's the,
here's a positive fact.
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In the Philippines, there is a law
by which all graduating students
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have to plant 10 trees before
they're allowed to graduate.
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Isn't that cool,
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Leekei: Yeah, it's really cool.
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But how do they plant the trees?
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JENN: I don't know.
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I just read the fact and I
thought, ah, that's interesting.
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They have, they, they are given trees
and they have to then decide where to
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plant them and plant them and prove
that they've planted them or else
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they can't graduate from high school.
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Leekei: If I have to do that, I
have no idea where can, I can plant
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them because I live in the city,
so I'm not going to plant trees
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Somewhere , I'm not allowed to do so.
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So
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JENN: Well, I'm sure if they're not
allowed to graduate, they have a whole
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system set up so they know where to do it.
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But, but I thought that was
amazing cuz that would be a
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lot of students, wouldn't it?
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Leekei: Yeah.
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Yes.
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Wow.
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JENN: I would think
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Leekei: Can, can they do it online?
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because there's now there's some websites.
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You can plant trees as well.
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Can they do it this way?
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You don't
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JENN: You mean plant pretend trees?
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Leekei: Yeah.
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JENN: What would be the point?
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I don't get that
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Leekei: No, no, go online.
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Now the websites from, uh, you
know, there are some services
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online where you can plant trees.
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So if they have no space near
where they live, well they have
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no access to land, to plant trees.
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Can they do it online and like, you
know, make it plant somewhere else?
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JENN: That's
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Leekei: I think we should ask them.
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JENN: we should, if anybody is out
there listening and knows if you live
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in Philippines, then let us know.
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Um,
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Leekei: Yeah.
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JENN: Do you want, do you
want another positive one or
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a negative one or a weird one?
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What do you want?
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Leekei: I want a weird one.
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I like wi, oh, sorry.
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Oh, okay.
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Great.
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We love weird stuff.
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OLABANJI: we love weird.
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JENN: so, so here's weird.
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Some warm-blooded animals are
experiencing shifts in their body
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shapes, and they figure it's a response
to the pressures of climate change.
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Um, so some animals are getting
larger beaks and longer legs and
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bigger ears to allow them to regulate
body temperature as the planet.
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Hotter and, uh, and they're talking,
uh, in particular about birds.
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And there was a researcher at, um,
at Deacon University in Australia and
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they've published a, um, uh, a journal
called Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
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And they've got about, uh, there's
an Australian parrot that it's
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beak size has gone from 4% to 10.
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in size since 1871.
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This isn't fast, but
isn't that interesting,
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Leekei: Yes, it is.
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Yeah, it is.
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It is.
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Yeah.
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But , I've read somewhere that, you
know, climate change is doing all this
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thing in, um, not only on the body,
but also in the behavior , of animals.
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Um, I've just read an article yesterday.
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, Talking about birds on the, on the coast.
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And it was very funny.
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It was written in a very funny
way, um, I think it's seagulls,
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um, you know, seagulls you know,
they eat fish in the oceans.
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And because, you know, there's the,
the whole, um, problem , , with.
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Overfishing and they don't
have enough fish to eat.
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And so now they go to
eat in people's plate.
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And though these articles say that
if you go, you know, there some
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places it said, okay, be careful.
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When you eat, uh, you need to protect
your plate, what's on your plate,
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because there will be seagulls coming
to, to steal yourself, your food
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JENN: I did a video recently where
there was a seagull right in front
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of me as I sat at the beach to eat
fish and chips, and it was talking
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to me and it was doing everything it
could do to get the food in my plate.
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It was right there, but
it didn't come and get it.
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But they're huge.
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They're so big.
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They're bigger than a
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Leekei: they are.
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Yes, they are.
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And actually the scary thing is
that , \ during the lockdown in
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Paris, In, uh, in 2020 I noticed that
there were love seagulls in Paris.
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Inside Paris.
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In Paris is like three hours
drive , from the coast, so they're
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not supposed to be in Paris.
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And then I started researching and
I found out it's because there's
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not enough food on the coast, so
they have to travel all the way to
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wear this, more people, more food.
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And now they are in Paris.
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And so it's a little bit scary.
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You.
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JENN: Hmm.
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OLABANJI: Yeah.
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JENN: All right.
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Facts and stories.
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