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Mary Jo Draper

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Dolphin Defenders Care About Old Tires and Old-Growth Forests

August 14, 2013

Mary Jo Draper of member station KCUR reports on a group of young environmental activists in urban St. Louis. The Dolphin Defenders devote a lot of time to making the city around them a better place to live, from recycling old tires to turning an empty lot into a wildlife habitat. But the group also […]

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