(환경) 파푸아 뉴기니, 이색 캥거루를 구하라
(환경) 파푸아 뉴기니, 이색 캥거루를 구하라
From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. A tiny wilderness of a nation is losing ground to global warming every day. ABC’s Dan Harris traveled to Papua, New Guinea and brought back the first pictures ever taken in the wild of an exotic and endangered creature.
If you want to get a close up look at a wild tree kangaroo, you need to climb way up into a towering매우 높은 tree. “Jump? Yeah. All the way down? They do the….in the wild.” “Okay. Okay. There she goes.” She jumps freefall maybe about a 100 feet. “There we go. Easy. Easy.” Conservationists like Lisa Dabek here do not relish즐기다 scaring tree kangaroos. “She’s Okay. She’s Okay.”
But she believes the more we know about how these mysterious and endangered animals live and eat and breathe, the easier it will be to protect them. “She’s cute. She’s beautiful.” This scene is playing out in Papua, New Guinea, one of the least developed countries on earth. But as this country becomes more developed, its forests are being chopped down자르다, adding to global warming. Which is why it was big news here when several major clans 씨족 recently set aside 180,000 acres of their land to protect the animals and to fight climate change.
The locals are also employing사용하다 the skills they used to use to hunt and eat tree kangaroos to help researchers put tiny little video camera from National Geographic. So we can see the environment from their perspective. “All Right. Let’s let Dan go.” A little tree roo캥거루 named Dan is now an unwitting의식하지 못하는 ambassador for a rare and endangered species. Dan Harris, ABC News, Papua, New Guinea.
That’s what you call a jumper and you can see more of two Dans. Dan Harris and Dan the tree ‘roo later on Nightline. From rare animals on land to an unusual site, undersea, Australian scientists have discovered an octopus off Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter. The octopus can drag the shell up to 65 feet and put two of them together for a hiding place. Researchers say it’s the first evidence they’ve ever found of an animal without a vertebrae 척추 using a tool.