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What you can do if you want to be like Monica:
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Dig in deeper: If you don’t know the science behind climate change or biodiversity loss, ask your science teacher or a librarian to recommend some good books and articles about the subject.
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Take action: Find a local conservation group and ask them what you can do to help.
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Become an explorer: Visit new places whenever you can. What is different from where you live? What is the same? If you can’t travel right now, learn a new language or explore other cultures by reading or watching videos about life in other countries.
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Listen to a podcast highlighting this career.
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Visit the Gateway to Tree Science to see the oak trees from around the world that the Arboretum is collecting to save them from extinction.
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Check out the Arboretum’s Vanishing Acts exhibit, which highlights several endangered trees.
