Rocky the dog Found in the Mountains

0:03 Kalaroka Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnnie Mack with five good news stories. Croatia has officially been decleared free of land mines after more than two decades of clearing explosives. These were left over from the Balkan Wars of the nineteen nineties during the breakup of Yugoslavia, and estimated one point five million land mines were planted across the country. After spending more than one billion dollars on d mining operations, Croatia has removed around one hundred and seven thousand land mines. Teams used metal detectors, specialized machinery, and trained detection dogs to locate and safely remove the explosives. The work, however, came at a cost. Between forty and sixty d miners lost their lives during the decades long effort. Meanwhile, in Kazakhstan, they are preparing for the return of tigers. They've restored the habitat and planted tens of thousands of trees in the country south as part of an ambitious rewilding program.

0:56 About thirty seven thousand seedlings were planted last year in forest around two rivers in the nature reserve they're trying to rebuild the ecosystem needed to support large predators. The restoration effort include species such as willow, long leaved olister and native trees. The plantings are designed to support prey animals that tigers depend on help it create a stable food chain before the tigers are released. A breeding pair of tigers from the Netherlands is already living on a semi wild facility in the reserve to adapt to the environment. Their offspring are expected to form part of the future wild population without the tigers. The antelope one from forty eight thousand animals in two thousand and five to more than one point nine million to day. Scientists are developing a new experimental cancer treatment that uses engineered bacteria to destroy tumors from the inside. There's a type of soil bacterium that thrives in environments without oxygen. The inner core of many solid tumors is oxygen free and filled with nutrients from dead cells, making an ideal place for the bacteria to grow. Once inside the tumor, the bacteria multiply and begin consuming the tumor. One challenge is when the bacteria reached the outer parts of the tumor, they run into oxygen and die before finishing the job. So a deal with that, The researchers added a gene from a related bacterium that allows it to better tolerate oxygen. It's still in the early research stages, but scientists hope it could eventually become another tool in cancer treatment. Wow, that sounds really cool. Awkward segue to an ultra rear Pokemon card that originally costs two dollars in nineteen ninety nine.

2:23 It has sold for forty thousand dollars at auction. So yell at your mom for throwing your shoe box away. The card is a first edition shadowless base set chore Rezord, considered one of the most sought after items among Pokemon collectors when the cards were first released. A pack of eleven cards typically sold for between a buck fifty and two bucks. Choreizord was the rarest holographic card in the original base set. Experts estimate only four thousand to ten thousand were even produced. Most were played with by children, so a well preserved example is especially valuable. Auctioneers say the Pokemon card market a surgeon in recent years, driven partly by collectors now being in their twenties and thirties, they grew up with the franchise and now they've got money.

3:05 Good news for a dog and his owner. The dog was lost during a winter storm. He was reunited with his owner after surviving forty three days in the mountains. Steven was driving from New Jersey to California for a new job. He stopped in Colorado. He left Rocky the dog with a local pet sitter. The dog bolted in the mountains just as a blizzard was happening. Volunteers from Summit Lost Pet Rescue started searching for Rocky using trail cameras, sent stations with the owner's clothing and the dog's bed. Despite several sightings on cameras, Rocky stayed elusive. After days of searching, Stephen had to keep going to California, but the rescue team kept looking. A couple weeks later, a resident spotted Rocky on a home security camera. Rescuers set up a trap using scent trails made from David's clothing.

3:47 Rocky entered the trap within three hours. The dog had lost nearly half his body weight, dropping from fifty pounds to about twenty six. But he's gonna be fine. Summit Lost Pet Rescue said it marked the longest time a dog had been missing before they six ess fully recovered it. The nonprofit last year located two hundred and thirteen of two hundred and fourteen lost dogs. And those are your five good news stories for today.