Environmentalists visit coral reef restoration project in Panama to mark World Environment Day

STORY: Environmentalists visit coral reef restoration project in Panama to mark World Environment Day DATELINE: June 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:16 LOCATION: Panama City CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the reefs 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): JUAN DIEGO REYNA, Founder of Reef2Reef Foundation 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): JEAN CARLOS BLANCO, Member of Reef2Reef Foundation STORYLINE: Environmentalists on Sunday visited a restoration project of coral reefs in waters near the Caribbean area of Panama known as Portobelo, to mark the World Environment Day. Juan Diego Reyna, founder of the restoration foundation Reef2Reef, signaled the importance of contributing to the repopulation of reefs in areas in which they have faded out or died due to pollution and climate change. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): JUAN DIEGO REYNA, Founder of Reef2Reef Foundation "This simply is the start of other replicas of this type of laboratory and this type of action, at the hands of associations and private enterprise, and of course particip