Crabbers face danger and poverty to save Ecuador's mangroves
Coastal communities who protect Ecuador's carbon-absorbing mangrove forests find their livelihoods - and lives - under threat
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Coastal communities who protect Ecuador's carbon-absorbing mangrove forests find their livelihoods - and lives - under threat
Coastal communities who protect Ecuador's carbon-absorbing mangrove forests find their livelihoods - and lives - under threat
This is how we survive." In exchange for permission to keep making a living from the mangroves, she and thousands of other crabbers around the country have agreed to care for the trees and to look out for - and report - anyone who cuts them down. Carrascal belongs to one of more than 60 crabbing collectives who are part of the government conservation scheme, which covers 160,000 hectares (almost 400,000 acres) of Ecuador's coast.