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UAE fog: Drone photos, traffic jams, stunning scenes

Lanka Talents Creation — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:33:25 +0000

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UAE residents woke up Sunday morning to cities covered by dense fog. The National Centre of Meteorology issued a weather alert, noting that large parts of the country would be covered in thick fog, with a visibility of less than 1,000 metres.
KT photographers were on hand to capture the foggy morning scenes as residents went about their routines. Have a look.
KT Photo: M Sajjad

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Joggers enjoy an active morning at Sharjah’s Khalid Lagoon. KT Photo: M Sajjad

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Visibility was poor in many areas of Dubai, as masked residents set out for the morning commute. KT Photo: Juidin Bernarrd

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The tops of skyscrapers are visible above the thick fog in Jumeirah Lake Towers. KT Photo: Saman Haziq

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A drone shot captures the fog as it descends over Sharjah’s Al Majaz. KT Photo: M Sajjad

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Sharjah’s Khalid Lagoon enjoys a serene start to the day, with cooler temperatures. KT Photo: M Sajjad

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Public buses plying their routes amidst reduced visibility. KT Photo: Shihab

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Warnings were issued to motorists to reduce speed as they navigated busy roads. KT Photo: Juidin Bernarrd

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Huge tailbacks were observed on Mohammed bin Zayed Road. KT Photo: Juidin Bernarrd

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Heavy traffic on Ittihad Road leading to Dubai. KT Photo: Shihab

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15-year-old Indian girl in Dubai helps recycle 25 tonnes of old electronic items

Lanka Talents Creation — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 08:20:25 +0000

Dubai: When Dubai-based Indian teen Riva Tulpule was moving house a few years ago, she found lots of disused electronics while helping her mom clear out drawers. This sparked the beginning of her campaign ‘WeCareDXB’ that she said has collected over 25 tonnes of e-waste for recycling in over four years.

Recently, the 15-year-old held her latest collection round, rallying friends and the wider community to drop off over 2,000 broken laptops, tabs, mobile phones, printers, keyboards, and other items at a villa next door to her where is enough holding space.

Riva, a grade 10 student of GEMS Modern Academy, said many people simply dump old devices and appliances in the general waste as they are not aware of the options for recycling themImage Credit: Supplied

Riva, a grade 10 student of GEMS Modern Academy, said many people simply dump old devices and appliances in the general waste as they are not aware of the options for recycling them. Riva got in touch with EnviroServe, “one of the largest electronics recyclers and processors in the world” based in Dubai, to hand over the collected items. She said the devices have lots of plastic and metal parts can be recycled, diverting waste from the landfills.

Raising awareness through social media and word of mouth, WeCareDXB has enlisted volunteers — students, professionals, the general public — to collect the items for recycling e-waste. “When we were moving house, I had asked my mom why we can’t we just dispose the items we don’t need. She told me they need to be tacked in a special way but we were not sure exactly how to go about it. So that made me curious and I decided to do some research into it, which led me to this cause,” said Riva.

During the latest collection round spanning 10 days in December 2020, over 60 students from 15 schools had signed up for the campaign. The students will be awarded certificates during a ceremony for them at EnviroServe later this month.

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Abu Samra records season’s lowest temperature at 4C

Buddhika Perera — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 05:25:32 +0000

Doha

Abu Samra recorded the lowest temperature so far this winter at 4oC, the Qatar Met department said in a tweet on Thursday.

Wakra, Mesaieed, Turayna and Karana were next with a minimum of 7oC, followed by Sheehaniya, Mukaynis and Jumayliyah with 8oC, Al Khor and Ghuwayriyah with 9oC, Hamad International Airport area with 10oC, Qatar University area with 11oC and Doha (airport) area with 12oC.

The maximum ranged from 20oC to 25oC on Thursday, with Doha recording a high of 23oC.

Friday’s forecast says it will be misty in some places at first, followed by moderate daytime temperature with some clouds, and it will be cold by night.

Some clouds are also expected in offshore in the early hours on Friday, followed by fine conditions later.

Friday’s minimum temperature is expected to be 6oC in Abu Samra, followed by 7oC in Wakra and Mesaieed, 8oC in Al Khor, 12oC in Dukhan and 14oC in Doha and Ruwais.

The maximum, on the other hand, will range from 22oC in Dukhan to 26oC in Doha on Friday, according to the Met department.

The weather office had earlier said a cold spell is expected to affect the country during the weekend, marked by a “significant decrease” in the minimum temperature.

Meanwhile, the Met department on Thursday explained the Siberian High phenomenon through a post on social media.

“The Siberian or Asian High, a semi-permanent high pressure… over northeastern Siberia and central Asia, is considered the largest and most important high pressure system during the winter season,” it said. The Siberian High is responsible for severe cold in large areas of Europe, Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, where its impact starts in October and reaches its peak in January.

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First Qatar Airways and Saudi Airlines planes land in Riyadh and Doha for the first time in over three years

Lanka Talents Creation — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:07:59 +0000

UPDATE: January 11, 2021 9:04 PM

Qatar Airways today resumed flights to Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a daily service. QR1164 from Hamad International Airport to King Khalid International Airport took off in Doha at 13:45 local time and landed safely at its destination at 15:10. The flight was operated by Qatar Airways’ Airbus A350-1000.

Later this week, Qatar Airways will resume flights to Jeddah on Friday 15 January (QR1188 departing DOH at 18:50) and to Dammam on Saturday 16 January (QR 1150 departing Doha at 17:10).

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Qatar Airways has announced the resumption of its flights to Saudi Arabia today with the first flight having already left Hamad International Airport en route to the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Qatar Airways will operate flights daily to the Saudi capital, according to the Al-Sharq newspaper.

A while ago, Qatar Airways posted the following on its Twitter Page:

On Saturday evening, Qatar Airways announced its intention to resume its flights to Saudi Arabia, starting with flights to Riyadh, on Monday, 11 January 2021.

Qatar’s national carrier added that Qatar Airways would also resume its flights to Jeddah on Thursday 14 January 2021, followed by its flights to Dammam on Saturday 16 January 2021, noting that all Qatar Airways flights to Saudi Arabia would be operated exclusively on the carrier’s wide-body aircraft, including its Boeing aircraft. 777-300, Boeing 8-787 and Airbus A350s.

Qatar Airways also indicated that it would start operating its flights with a daily trip to Riyadh, four weekly flights to Jeddah, and a daily trip to Dammam.

UPDATE: January 11, 2021 5:00 PM

The first Saudi Airlines to land in Qatar since the blockade has departed Riyadh, inbound to Doha according to Gazanfarulla Khan (@acepilotkhan) on Twitter.

UPDATE: January 11, 2021 11:16 PM

Qatar Airways posted an update saying that the first Saudi Airlines arrived at Hamad International Airport Monday evening

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A Study Pod That Will Solve All Your Problems

Lanka Talents Creation — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:17:10 +0000

This year has definitely changed up our work routines. While many freelancers were working from home before, this year has really made office workers change up their routines. A lot of us have experienced this shift towards remote work. For those who hated the office environment, working from home might’ve felt like a relief, but after a couple of weeks, we all started realising that there’s a massive difference between working remotely and actually working from your home. Lots of freelancers like to go and work in a cafe for a bit during the week, just changing up the environment really helps to be more productive.

Many studies show that being out in nature is beneficial for everyone’s mental health. And it looks like Swiss company Livit has created something that can help us.

They’ve designed a study pod that will allow you to be outside and see more nature while still being sheltered and able to work. It’s a little pod that can be placed in your backyard, or in the forest, or anywhere out in nature that has one full glass wall that allows you to look out into nature and feel more at one with it while being able to work comfortably at the same time.

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Climate change: Alaskan wilderness opens up for oil exploration

Lanka Talents Creation — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:24:25 +0000

The giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.

But after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.

Opponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump’s term ends.

Covering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is often described as America’s last great wilderness.

It is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.

In the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.

As temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.

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image captionMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration

The coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.

The refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.

In the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.

The same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.

The push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.

Many of Alaska’s political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.

Prudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.

Oil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state’s permanent fund.

In 2017, the Trump administration’s tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.

The US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.

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A last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.

“The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich’in people who have relied on this land for millennia,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.

“That’s why we’ve taken them to court. We can’t let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.”

Reports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.

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image captionThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land

While estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.

Several large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.

There is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.

With climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it’s likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.

This could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.

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Two snakes fight fierce battle in viral video. Internet reacts

Buddhika Perera — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 04:58:51 +0000

The internet is amazed after watching a short video of two snakes engaging in a fierce battle at the Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary in Australia. The one-minute clip was posted on Facebook by the official account of Australian Wildlife Conservancy and has gone viral on social media.

WHAT DOES THE VIRAL VIDEO SHOW?

In the short clip, two Mulga snakes fought a fierce battle and as per the caption of Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s post, continued for over an hour.

WHY WERE THE SNAKES FIGHTING?

Ecologist Tali Moyle, who recorded the footage, said that as mating season commences, male snakes begin wrestling in order to establish their dominance.

“Hiss and make up? Not an option for these feisty Mulga Snakes, seen fighting for well over an hour at our Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary. According to AWC ecologist Tali Moyle, who recorded the footage: “Mating season starts in early spring and the males start wrestling, attempting to push each other over to prove their dominance, for the right to mate with the females. Although Mulga Snakes are fairly common, it’s not too often you see this behaviour – this is only the second time I’ve seen it”,” Australian Wildlife Conservancy said in the caption of their post.

“Never a dull moment at Scotia. The 65,000-hectare sanctuary encompasses a large fox and cat-free area (8,000 hectares) and protects some of Australia’s largest remaining populations of threatened wildlife,” it added.

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3klHSzLrpXI

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A Year Like No Other

Lanka Talents Creation — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:03:31 +0000

Certain years are so eventful they are regarded as pivotal in history, years when wars and slavery ended and deep generational fissures burst into the open — 1865, 1945 and 1968 among them. The year 2020 will certainly join this list. It will long be remembered and studied as a time when more than 1.5 million people globally died during a pandemic, racial unrest gripped the world, and democracy itself faced extraordinary tests.

The photographs in this collection capture those historic 12 months. Jeffrey Henson Scales, who edited The Year in Pictures with David Furst, said he had never felt such sweep and emotion from a single year’s images — from the “joy and optimism” of a New Year’s Eve kiss in Times Square, to angry crowds on the streets of Hong Kong and in American cities, to scenes of painful debates over race and policing, to the “seemingly countless graves and coffins across the globe.”

The impeachment of an American president culminated in early 2020. But two pictures taken in late January in Wuhan, China, are hints of a larger cataclysm to come. In one aerial shot, construction workers are building a giant hospital virtually overnight to handle hundreds of patients stricken with the coronavirus. The other looks like a still from a sci-fi film: A man dressed in black, wearing a white mask, lies dead on a city street; two emergency workers have stepped away from him and gaze at the viewer — all but their eyes hidden by face coverings and ghostly white protective suits.

Then the virus swept the world, recorded in indelible images. The scenes of people comforting beloved family members through glass and cellphones are heartbreaking. Some of the most haunting images are of emptiness. Still cities. Vacant streets of London and the Place de la Concorde. A desolate Munich subway station. Among the most disturbing is a photo of a refrigerated trailer set up as a makeshift morgue in Greenwich Village.

Punctuating these scenes are photographs of a tumultuous American election that even without the ravages of the virus would end up looming large in history books. As the year progresses, fueled by police shootings of young Black men, powerfully symbolic pictures of protests begin appearing. In May, a lone demonstrator carries an upside-down American flag past a burning liquor store in Minneapolis, in protest of the killing of George Floyd.

In 2020, a year when all aspects of life seemed transformed, so was the process of making these photographs. Journalists are observers, not participants, but the most striking sense to emerge from interviews with the photographers who took these pictures — described by Mr. Henson Scales as the most diverse group in his more than a decade curating this annual compilation — was how much they too lived what they witnessed. No one could escape the virus and vitalness of 2020. It gave photographers fresh perspective. And they gave us unforgettable images from a historic year in our lives.

“Everyone was so hopeful and excited making proclamations that 2020 was going to be their year. It just seems like a horrible joke now. It seemed like we were ringing in a very special year, and we were, but wow.”

— Calla Kessler

Hong Kong, Jan. 1

After weeks of relative calm, pro-democracy protesters took to the streets, resuming mass demonstrations that had begun the previous June.

Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

Des Moines, Jan. 5

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prayed at the Corinthian Baptist Church during his presidential campaign, in which he promised to restore the “soul of America.”

Brittainy Newman/The New York Times

This trip to Iowa was Brittainy Newman’s first time on the campaign trail, and this image came from one of her last opportunities to photograph anyone in such close quarters this year.

“They were praying for him on his journey, on this trail he’s going on, and for him to become president and wishing the world would get someone new,” she said. “Everyone was trying desperately to believe. Even Biden’s face — he’s staring right at Clara Jones. He was just staring at her, and her hands — they never let go. They just kept saying ‘Amen, amen.’ You could feel it. It was like a crescendo building up. Everyone at the end had goosebumps.”

Saudi Arabia, Jan. 6

The Dakar Rally, an annual off-road endurance event that has been held in dozens of countries, was hosted in 2020 by the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula.

Bernat Armangue/Associated Press

Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 7

Supporters of Nicolás Maduro tried blocking the re-election of Juan Guaidó as leader of the National Assembly. Since 2019, both men have claimed to be Venezuela’s rightful president.

Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times

New York, Jan. 8

Fidaa Zaidan performing in “Grey Rock,” a play about a Palestinian man who decides to build a rocket to the moon.

Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times

Bago State Forest, Australia, Jan. 10

A dehydrated and underfed wild horse was on the verge of collapse as Australia battled one of the worst wildfire seasons in its history.

Matthew Abbott for The New York Times

“Once a fire goes through, things are just so quiet. You don’t realize all the bugs, all the birds, all the little beings make these noises. It’s just so disconcerting to be walking through this destroyed forest and have complete silence.”

— Matthew Abbott

Milwaukee, Jan. 14

President Trump at a “Keep America Great” rally, two days before the official start of his impeachment trial for charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.

Doug Mills/The New York Times

Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 19

Eric Fisher of the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs’ 35-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans in the A.F.C. championship game sent the Chiefs to Super Bowl LIV, which they went on to win.

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

Benghazi, Libya, Jan. 23

After years of conflict, Libyan factions edged briefly toward a cease-fire, but this street in Benghazi best told the story of life in the exhausted country.

Ivor Prickett for The New York Times

Ivor Prickett traveled to Benghazi in Libya, from where he had reported years earlier, after being granted the rare permission to photograph the eastern part of the country.

“It was basically unrecognizable,” Mr. Prickett said after his chance to get a look at a part of the nation that had been largely cut off to foreigners for years. “I couldn’t really figure out what was where. It did come back to me, but it was one of the most heavily destroyed scenes I’ve seen in years, and that’s saying a lot because I’ve been in Mosul and Raqqa.”

Officials in Benghazi kept steering Mr. Prickett away from the old, colonial part of the city. He found a way to sneak in with the help of friends, and eventually persuaded officials to let him work there.

“At night it was particularly poignant, because there was no electricity and would just be lit by lights of cars,” he said. “There were people living amongst the ruins. It was really evocative and spooky. And I was walking around and saw one of the most heavily destroyed streets and saw this one light probably as far as the eye could see across three or four blocks on the second or third floor of an apartment block. It looked so out of place in this completely gutted building.

“I was waiting for a car to come down the street to light the buildings with a slow exposure, then just by chance this cat walked across in front of the car, and that was the picture. I had the car and the cat, and I knew I had the picture and just packed up and went home.”

St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 15

During President Vladimir V. Putin’s state of the nation speech, displayed on a facade, he called for constitutional changes that would allow him to hold power past 2024.

Anton Vaganov/Reuters

Los Angeles, Jan. 22

New citizens were sworn in at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 30

Milagros Vásquez, seated, was turned away by five hospitals as she went into labor. Venezuela’s public health system has been shattered by a broken economy, with maternity wards the most damaged.

Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

Meridith Kohut wanted to show how the economic collapse in Venezuela was devastating the country’s health care system by illustrating the plight of pregnant women.

Ms. Kohut and Julie Turkewitz, the Andes bureau chief for The New York Times, followed one woman in labor who was turned away from several hospitals before planting herself in front of one and refusing to leave.

“She had been in labor for 40 hours,” Ms. Kohut said. “She just said, ‘I’m not going to go try anywhere else.’ She eventually fainted and a bunch of other pregnant women who had just started labor were there and they and their families all started banging on the door.

“We were afraid she was going to die. I took a photo of her when she fainted, and her mom was screaming and pleading for help. Then everyone in the Times team dropped our cameras and everything and we all started banging on the door, too, and then they finally let her inside. And unfortunately, her baby died the next morning.

“The crisis is so bad that to do a funeral is like the equivalent of a year’s worth of minimum-wage salary. So she couldn’t afford to bury the baby and had to leave the body in the morgue. It was absolutely heartbreaking.”

Wuhan, China, Jan. 24

Construction teams worked around the clock on a field hospital that was mostly built in 10 days to help cope with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

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Wuhan, China, Jan. 30

A month into the coronavirus outbreak, workers in hazmat suits attended to an elderly man who collapsed near a hospital.

Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Hector Retamal remembers taking the train from Shanghai to Wuhan, China, in January, as the city was locking down.

A woman approached him and asked where he was going.“‘It’s no good. It’s dangerous. Don’t go to Wuhan,’” he recalled her saying. “People were really afraid of the virus.”

Mr. Retamal arrived to find a deserted train station and a ghost town of a city of some 11 million people.

He and a videographer spent about 10 days there. The two men often had to walk, lugging their gear across the sprawling city and trying to keep a low profile from the police, who would shoo them back to their hotels.

Coming across a man’s body on the ground not far from one hospital was startling, Mr. Retamal said. The scene unfolded in utter chaos and confusion.

“My question was what was he doing there,” Mr. Retamal said. “He didn’t move and, wow, is he dead? I was starting to take photos because it was strange and at that exact moment a woman started to scream, saying ‘No, no, no,’ and she asked us to leave the place, and she was angry.”

More people arrived, surrounding Mr. Retamal and telling him not to take photos.

Everyone kept their distance from the man until people in white protective suits and masks arrived and placed him in a yellow body bag. They sprayed disinfectant around the area where he had lain.

The police began to arrive, and Mr. Retamal hurried away. He and his colleagues never officially confirmed that the man had died of Covid-19; nobody would answer their questions.

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These Firefighters Rescued A Set Of Puppies Only To Find Out The Real Truth That They Are Not

Lanka Talents Creation — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:23:36 +0000

Emergency calls for help are nothing new to the Colorado Springs Fire Department, thanks to the nature of their job. So, as soon they received this particular call, they immediately sent out a team to the site. That’s where they were tasked to rescue eight little puppies and get them to safety. However, hours passed, and they suddenly had a striking realization they had never expected. The puppies were not what they seemed to be! And the brave firefighters were about to find out a big secret that they did not expect.

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It is common knowledge that firefighters are not only focused on extinguishing fires; they are also called for a variety of emergencies as well! But are you aware that they are also known to help animals in danger?

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How mail-order frogs could save Colombia’s amphibians

Lanka Talents Creation — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:10:14 +0000

It looked like an ordinary piece of luggage filled with clothes. Then police inspectors at Bogóta’s El Dorado International Airport noticed something strange at the bottom of the bag – security X-rays revealed a curious dark cluster amid the clothes.

The mysterious clump turned out to be hundreds of black photographic film canisters. But when officials opened the canisters, they were found not to contain any film.

Packed inside were 424 critically-endangered frogs, each with a black market value of up to $2,000 (£1,479). Some had electric yellow and black stripes, others were milky green with splodges of neon orange, a few lay lifeless; all were highly poisonous.

According to police, the species had been poached from the Chocó and Valle del Cauca regions of the Colombian Pacific and were on their way to Germany.

But this incident on 13 April 2019 was merely part of an ongoing problem with wildlife smuggling in Colombia, which has around 850 species of amphibians and the world’s second highest diversity of frogs.

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