Hello and I'm your host. to Meanwhile in the future, in the future is a podcast about the future.

We start every episode with a trip to the future and then come back to today to talk about

how that future might work.

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Great. Let's go to the year 2047.

In world news, 13,000 researchers and assistants boarded helicopters today for the beginning of Operation Roundup.

The project is a collaboration between the United Nations and the International Union for Conservation of Nature that's aimed at gathering up endangered

species to prevent extinction.

Operation Roundup is the fourth phase of the larger Project Arc, a worldwide push to save endangered

species by housing them in zoos worldwide.

For the past 10 years, over 180 countries have constructed zoos to house their region's wildlife.

Maya Wynne, the chief scientist for Operation Roundup, says she expects the gathering process to take at least three years. Okay, everybody here. Is Fatima here? Great. Running down the list for today, please call

out if you gathered any specimens and how many. Bears poacher.

Nahn. Chinese Pangolin. Three. Bear's poacher, none.

Chinese pangolin.

Three. Gereal.

Two.

Hopia Oderata.

One.

Oregon pipe coral.

None.

Pygmy hog.

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