Earth Day: Boy Scouts Helping To Regrow Florida's Vunerable Coral Reefs

CBS Miami

April 19, 2022

Boy Scouts are known for camping, hiking, and earning merit badges, but now they are also helping to do something remarkable, re-growing Florida’s coral reefs. Corals are extremely vulnerable to climate change, but teenage Scouts are now helping to fight for their future.

On an island in the Florida Keys, tanks hold a new generation of corals just starting to grow. Some young scouts are helping care for them.

At the Boy Scouts of America’s Sea Base, young men and women have been learning to scuba dive for decades, where they’ve seen up close how the colors and creatures in Florida’s coral reefs are under serious threat.

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