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[FOCUS] Planting Trees to Graduate in the Philippines and Others Fun Facts
Episode 1795th March 2024 • CarbonSessions • The Carbon Almanac Podcast Network
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Episode Summary: This segment is from a longer episode in which Jenn, Olanbanji and Leekei took turns sharing wildlife facts and stories

Jenn read that students in the Philippines must have planted 10 trees before graduating from high school

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson, Olabanji Stephen and Leekei Tang

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France.

Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria, he’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

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JENN:

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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