Foxy the Fruit Bat Sleeps Well

Foxy the Fruit Bat lives on the islands called the Maldives (pronounced mall-deevz). The Maldives are a large collection of very small coral atolls in the Indian Ocean and, on a map of the world, can be found below the southern tip of India.
Like Foxy and his friends Laila and Ghassan, children around the world have heard that these lovely islands will disappear beneath rising seas because of climate change. But that is just not true. Most of the world’s coral atolls are growing, rising higher and higher rather than getting smaller as sea levels rise. And that’s good news!
Everybody will be glad to hear that Foxy – and all who live on tropical islands – will have homes for many generations to come.

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