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SLP Family Heads Out on World Adventure to Study Environmental Issues
The Krafts are taking a year off, and with their kids in tow, they are heading out on an adventure that will span six continents, according to a release.
For one St. Louis Park family, the next year is going to be a worldly adventure.
Larry and Lauri Kraft are taking a year off, and traveling to six continents with their children to see the world. However, seeing the world isn't the only goal of the trip, but rather to study environmental issues and climate change. Their findings will be shared with their childrens' school, Peter Hobart Elementary, as well as 85,000 other students through a nonprofit called The Wilderness Classroom.
“We won’t spare facts, but at heart, we’re optimists,” Larry Kraft said in a release. “We want to paint a hopeful, positive vision of how the world can change, and highlight some of the good things that people are doing, or can do, to make a difference.”
The first leg of the trip begins Costa Rica and Peru and focuses on the rainforest and biodiversity. The family will then travel to the Galápagos Islands to learn about evolution.
The family will return in the late fall to visit family and friends, and then begin the second leg of the journey, traveling to Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Namibia, Mozambique, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Norway, ending the trip in Svalbard in the Artic.
Other areas of study throughout the trip include water quality, deforestation, glacial melt, evolution and endangered species.
For more information on the Krafts' trip, go to the family's blog at krafttrip.blogspot.com/.
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