[FOCUS] Planting Trees to Graduate in the Philippines and Others Fun Facts

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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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What have you got?

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