14/10/2013 Newsround


14/10/2013

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Hi guys, Leah here with your afternoon Newsround. Loads on the

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way for you, including the wildlife expert who says trying to save these

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guys could be a waste of money. And should you give out birthday

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invitations at school when not everyone's invited.?

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There are thousands of endangered animals in the world and lots of

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different charities trying to raise money to save them, but how do you

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decide which animals to save? Autumnwatch presenter Chris Packham

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has told Newsround that he thinks we are spending

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the cute and most popular animals. Here's Martin with the story.

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When you think about endangered species you might think of popular

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animals like elephants, tigers or pandas. The panda is one of the most

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high profile animals under threat, it is even the symbol of the World

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Wildlife Fund for Nature. There are fewer than 2000 pandas left in the

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wild but some people say efforts to save them are a waste of money.

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Autumn watch presenter Chris Packham says a quarter of mammals and 1 % of

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birds are under threat, so instead of looking after the cuter creatures

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we should be focussing on protecting habitats for all wildlife. What we

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really need to do is not pick and choose which ones we are trying to

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save. We need to try and motivate politicians to understand that

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looking after all life is really important. There have been lots of

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attempts to boost panda numbers through breeding programmes in zoos.

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Recently, they've been trying to get Tian Tian to breed at Edinburgh Zoo

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with no success yet. When it comes to pandas we have spent millions and

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millions of dollars trying to make these animals breed in captivity.

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They have only successfully done this really in China. When they try

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to release the animal back into the wild, none have survived. Perhaps

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putting so much energy into breeding these animals might be a waste of

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money. I'm not saying I do not like the Pandora that we should not try,

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just that it is too difficult. Not everyone agrees with what Chris has

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to say. The World Wildlife Fund says protecting a famous animal like the

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panda is a good way of getting people interested in saving other

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creatures. And they along with many other wildlife charities are still

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doing what they can to save them. To India now, where thousands of

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families are returning to their homes after a huge cyclone swept

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across the east of the country. 18 people were killed when Cyclone

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Phailin struck the state of Orissa on Saturday. Winds of up to 125

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miles an hour flattened many coastal homes, uprooted trees and blocked

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roads. Indian authorities say the evacuation of nearly one million

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people into temporary shelters has helped save many people's lives Now

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the clean up begins after the worst cyclone there for 14 years.

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Power is gradually being restored and links are being rebuilt. Many

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people are from her communities along the coast, many of whom have

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lost their homes. Focus is to rebuild their lives.

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Yesterday we told you about a head-teacher in Bath who asked

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parents to avoid bringing party invites into school that didn't

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include all children in the class. It got you sending LOADS of opinions

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into our website. Newsround spoke to the head today, who told us it was

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unkind to leave some children out. He said he wanted the school to make

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every child feel included. Nel went to find out whether you guys agreed

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with him. Birthday parties - it can be quite

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upsetting if your name is not on the invite list. Should you have to

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invite everybody? And if not, isn't it a bad idea to hand them out at

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school? I have come to a school to find out what people think. I think

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they should give them out at home time. If they were handed out in

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school and you did not get invited you might get upset. I think there

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should be given out in class because you can have as many as you want.

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They should be handed out at home. When I did not get one I felt really

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sad. The only person that could cheer me up was my friends and my

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family. Me and my family do not celebrate birthdays and I am not

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worried about invitations and all. It's hard to image life without our

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mobiles but spare a thought for people living in a village in Mexico

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They're just decades villagers delivered

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important messages by loud speaker because telecoms companies said they

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could not justify a network. I will be back at 6:50pm. Join me

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then. Goodbye.

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