Molokai’s Champion of Change

Hawaiʻi Public Radio

Published March 31, 2014 at 11:07 AM HST

Many people around the state work to protect and restore our natural resources. Teaching the next generation about conservation is a related challenge. And on Molokai, one young person has won national recognition for doing both. Catherine Cluett from the Molokai Dispatch has his story.

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