Fishing the Line: Capturing Resources that Swim Across Boundaries
By Emily Cassidy, Amelia Snyder, and Kristine Lister from Resource Watch, and David Kroodsma, Global Fishing Watch More than one billion people depend on fisheries and aquaculture as a primary source of protein. In many low-income countries, they also rely on fishing for income. While countries mostly fish within their own jurisdictions, according to data […]
Squeezing the Sundarbans: Threats to World’s Largest Mangrove Forest Put Millions of People at Risk
By Janet Ranganathan, Sarah Parsons and Jasmine Qin More than 200 small islands rise from the jade waters of the Bay of Bengal. Gnarled roots, shrubs and trees stretch across thousands of miles of land and sea. Villagers paddle along waterways in search of crabs and fish. Bengal tigers lurk within dense forests, emerging to swim the narrow channels. Welcome to the […]
