(3 Dec 2009)
AP Television
Seropedica, Brazil, November 16, 2009
1. Mid shot frog Physalaemus soaresi on dry leaves
2. Pan of pond
3. Pan of Urophyla eucalyptus trees to bark of eucalyptus tree
4. Billboard sign on highway with passing cars reading: "PAC - Growth Acceleration Program - Metropolitan Arc - Total investment U$567.6 million - jobs created 2000"
5. Pan at highway site within Mario Xavier National Forest to concrete tunnel
6. Zoom out (same location) from duck to highway site
7. Tilt up from iron construction materials to highway site
8. Pan of concrete structure showing highway site
9. Set up Dalson Chain
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Dalson Chain, Supervisor, Mario Xavier National Forest:
"This is the bed where the highway is going to pass through. This is the main part where we want to preserve the species."
11. Tilt up Dalton Chain in forest pointing to frog (Physalaemus soaresi) nest
12. Close up white foam on forest floor, which is a frog Physalaemus soaresi nest
13. Pan government wild animal centre to titi monkey in cage
14. Zoom out various types of hawks
15. Close up parrot behind grid
16. Wide shot people walking in forest
17. Tilt up from water to Prof. Potsch fishing for tadpoles
18. Close up tadpole on hand
19. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Sergio Potsch PhD., Biology Professor Federal University of Rio de Janeiro:
"This lowland forest in Rio de Janeiro, here in the Southeast, is a very diverse, species-rich forest and is an almost extinct environment. This forest reserve is a remainder of what is left of the lowland forest in Rio de Janeiro state."
20. Tilt up pond
++NIGHT SHOTS++
21. Tilt up Prof. Potsch walking in pond, pointing at something
22. Close up Hand catching, zoom out to Prof. Potsch
23. Close up frog in Prof. Potsch's hand (Dendropsophus anceps)
24. Mid shot frog in hand: "Butter frog" (Leptodactylus ocellatus cf.)
25. Small green frog (Hypsiboas albomarginatus) in student's hands, zoom out to Prof. Potsch
26. Close up frog in student's hand, UPSOUND: "Hypsiboas albomarginatus."
27. Close up same frog
28. Close up frog in student's hand (Dendropsophus anceps)
29. Close up two mating green frogs
30. Close up small frog on leaf
31. Close up Physalaemus soaresi
32. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Sergio Potsch, PhD. Biology Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro:
"An interesting aspect is the fact that it lives here but not in the surrounding areas, something we need to study. And we know very little about it, about how it can be useful to us, one more reason for it to be saved."
33. Close up Physalaemus soaresi held by hand UPSOUND (Portuguese): "Many amphibians provided substances, molecules that were used and today are synthesized. We know nothing about her (frog), what she might provide us with one day."
34. Physalaemus soaresi on forest floor.
LEAD IN
The construction of a major highway around the city of Rio de Janeiro has been partly stopped due to the discovery of a small frog under threat of extinction.
The Brazilian Government has already invested millions in the Metropolitan Arc, which will detour heavy lorry traffic from the North to Sepetiba harbour.
But all has been halted until the survival of the frogs, only found in a small part of the forest reserve, is guaranteed.
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This little frog is one of the many residents of the Mario Xavier National Forest.
The site was originally conceived as a government Eucalyptus tree plantation and research station.
After this line of research moved into private hands, the 493 hectare forest lost its purpose and started to grow back its original vegetation.
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