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Published: 25 January 2021 PHILIPSBURG:--- The Nature Foundation St. Maarten would like to acknowledge the remarkable contribution from Yacht Club Port de Plaisance to support the Foundation’s educational efforts in 2020. Thanks to the generous support received, the Nature Foundation was able to employ an Educational Outreach Officer who focused on strengthening awareness and education programs for local students and residents. “We at the Yacht Club Port de Plaisance, take pride in presenting the beauty of Sint Maarten and the surrounding islands to our customers. We are thri...

Great-great-grandma great-great-grandmother of ten visited the national park in january and took advantage to become a parker stewart. the junior ranger program revolves around education and dissipation pledging to protect the worlds sites for future generations and you want to teach kids how to protect the grand canyon because her kids daughter to care for the land. my parents taught me how to care for the land, grand canyon is a beautiful place. not just a hole in the ground. if you want to take a vacation there, i highly recommend it. >> dana: jessica my from colorado. did you have to go to...

>> a lot of things are competing with parks and public lands. there's so much out there for folks to do, the world has become smaller, travel has become cheaper. and so there's just a lot of competition for people's spare time. >> yeah. so then how do you compete with kids to make them come here as much as they want to go to like, disney world? >> i think the best we can do is try to reach them through whatever avenue they're involved with and introduce to public lands. >> in reaching younger generation continues to be a challenge for the park service. the average age of a visitor to this park...

And in the past decade, it's visitors under the age of 15 have been cut in half. so what is the national park service doing to engage the youth besides the junior ranger program, trying to bridge the gap between the analog and digital worlds of using social media and technology to attract the plugged in generation and for young adults, the student continues vacation association that places more than 4,000 volunteers annually in public lands and urban green spaces and today, i'm working alongside these young volunteers to finish and do bridge. where are you from? >> new york. >> the furthest th...

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