03/10/2016 Newsround


03/10/2016

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One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent years

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is expected to batter parts of the Caribbean later.

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Haiti is likely to get the worst of it, but Jamaica could also get

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lots of flooding and winds of up to 150 miles per hour.

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BBC Reporter Nick Davis is in Kingston in Jamaica.

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We are feeling the effects of the outer edges of that storm.

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It's 200-odd miles away from here, but even so we've seen

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some localised flooding, we've seen people having to be moved

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But it's been parked, as I said, 200 miles out.

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It's slowly moving away from here, wait from the north-west,

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Bad news for Haiti and especially for eastern Cuba as well.

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Thousands of elephants are being illegally killed

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every year in Africa for their ivory tusks.

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Now the biggest ever meeting of the world's countries

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to talk about wildlife and how to protect it

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is calling for a ban on the buying and selling of ALL ivory.

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Campaigners are calling it a big step forward

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but countries can't be forced to follow it.

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Jenny sent us this from South Africa,

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Elephants are some of the most famous and most loved animals on the

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planet. Just a few decades ago, there were millions of them, but now

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they are now wrote to extinction. A huge sensors which recorded the

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number of elephants and where they live was completed this year. They

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used a plane to fly across 18 African countries, from West Africa

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right down to South Africa, where I am now. The results? They were

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shocking. They found that, in seven years, one in three of Africa's

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elephants has disappeared. Elephants without Borders, a group involved in

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the census, say that around 30,000 elephants are being killed each

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year. Since 2007, Africa has lost roughly 144,000 elephants because of

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poaching. That is when they are illegally hunted and killed for

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their ivory tusks, which can be sold for huge amount of money around the

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world, as part of the ivory trade. They are now being killed faster

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than you elephants are being born. Unless something is done to stop

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poaching, it is being that elephants could die within our lifetime. This

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is where it gets confusing. Countries selling ivory to each

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other is allowed, but selling antique Ivory is still allowed in

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some countries. It all started in the 1800 's. A fashion for ivory

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objects like homes and piano keys and elephant tusks became really

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popular. For the next 100 years, thousands of elephants were killed

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every single month. In 1989, the buying and selling of Ivory to

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different countries was banned, which helped the numbers of

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elephants in the world to go up again. But, in 1999 and 2008, two

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Ivory sales were allowed to happen which kick-started more poaching,

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people think. Since then, the illegal ivory trade has not stopped.

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Poachers are still killing elephants for their tasks, and the ivory is

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still being sent around the world by networks of criminals, mostly to

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places like China and Vietnam, where they can be carved into things like

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ornaments or jewellery. They are different opinions about whether or

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not the ivory trade should be allowed. Some countries say they

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should be allowed to buy and sell ivory to raise money to look after

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elephants. But many other countries say the only way to stamp out

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poaching is to ban the trade on ivory completely.

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The United states have won the Ryder cup for the first time since 2008,

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At one point a comeback had looked to be on the cards with Europe

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leading in 7 of the 12 matches but the Americans fought back

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strongly and Ryan Moore sealed the victory.

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I couldn't have asked for one ounce more.

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Davis will have asked for the same from his team.

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That is the passion of the Ryder Cup, and that is what it brings out.

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Unfortunately, we are going back home without a trophy.

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But we will be fighting hard for it again in Paris in two years' time.

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And Melvin was the first celeb to be voted off Strictly last night,

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That's because singer Anastasia had an injury and couldn't dance again.

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Luckily, she was saved by the public.

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Right, I'm back in half an hour, when we're live from South Africa.

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