30/05/2016 Newsround


30/05/2016

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It's bank holiday Monday, you're watching Newsround with me, Ayshah.

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Coming up in the next five: The dogs being trained to find koala poo.

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And the biggest bouncy castle ever.

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First to Formula 1, and Lewis Hamilton is a very happy man.

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He's won his first race of the season in Monaco,

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beating his team-mate Nico Rosberg and cutting Rosberg's lead

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in the championship to just 22 points.

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Hamilton says he's sure he can win his third

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championship this year.

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In the tennis, Andy Murray is through to the quarterfinals

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of the French Open.

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He beat American player John Isner in straight sets.

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Teenager Bethany Shriever from Essex has taken part

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in the World BMX Championships in Colombia, South America,

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over the weekend.

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She represented Great Britain level in the competition

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and earned herself a junior women's time trial silver medal.

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We've been to meet the 16-year-old to find out more about her

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love for BMX bikes.

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My name's Bethany Shriever, and I'm a BMX racer for Team GB.

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I got involved in the sport of BMX when I was eight years

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old through my brother.

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One of his friends invited us down the track, and he gave me one

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of these and one of these, and I fell in love.

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BMX bikes are smaller and harder than most bikes.

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It's so they can take everything we put them through.

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They're made to be strong, because the track is really

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demanding on the bike.

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There are lots of jumps on the track, made on a really

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hard surface so that you can go really fast.

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These bikes are for tracks like this, whereas mountain

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bikes are made to go through puddles and mud.

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This month I'm heading to Colombia to compete in the BMX

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World Championships, representing my country.

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There will be loads of people competing from all over the world,

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but I'm the only girl competing for the UK in junior level.

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If you want to give it a go, get down to your local track.

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Anyone can do it.

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You don't have to be mad to do it, but it does help!

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Have a look at this fossilised skeleton of a massive sea reptile

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that lived 165 million years ago.

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The ancient bones were discovered at a quarry near Peterborough,

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and the creature has been given the nickname Eve.

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Next to Australia, where scientists have come up

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with a pretty interesting way of tracking down koalas.

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The animals are an endangered species across the country,

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but now it's hoped koala-tracking dogs might be able to help.

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This is Maya, and she's on the hunt for koalas.

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The great thing with dogs as they can smell what we can't see.

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Koala poo smells very much of eucalyptus, and so they can help

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us locate scats very easily.

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In many parts of Australia, their numbers are declining

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because of habitat destruction, so researchers are trying to figure

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out which are the most important areas to keep protected.

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You need a lot of stamina, because you have to cover a lot

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of ground and look under each tree for scats.

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For Maya, that is not a problem, she is playing, and she is 20 times

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faster at finding the scats.

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And most importantly for conservation, she is 150% more

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accurate, so that means she finding scats where humans are not.

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For habitat protection, this is critical.

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But even the best detectors need to keep their skills up

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with a bit of training.

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It's very simple, because we don't want to take her into the bush

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and for her to start indicating on possum poo or Eastern grey poo.

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We want to make sure that Maya knows what koala poo is,

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and excludes any other marsupial poo.

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If you think about it, dogs don't go to work for a salary.

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They go to work and for them it is playing.

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You are such a good girl!

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And on top of that, for this pup, tracking and playing fetch

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rarely feels like work!

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Top Gear came back on our telly screens last night.

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New presenters Chris Evans and co-host Matt LeBlanc

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took to roads in the US, Morocco and in the UK.

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It's had mixed reviews on social media, with a lot of people

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missing the previous host, Jeremy Clarkson.

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We want to know what you think about the new Top Gear.

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Go online and let us know.

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Finally, fancy having a go on this?

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It's claimed to be the world's biggest bouncy castle.

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It's being used at a festival in Southampton.

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It's taller than the Great Wall of China, and 100 people can use

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it at the same time.

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That's all from me for now, Newsround's back in half an hour.

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