How the world’s voracious appetite for shrimp is destroying Ecuador’s mangroves

A t low tide, Johana Carolina Cruz Potes steps into the mudflats around Isla Costa Rica, in Ecuador’s Jambelí Archipelago. Holding a bucket and a short metal hook, she probes the tangled roots of a mangrove patch, searching for , black-shelled cockles, buried beneath the sludge. Production has push...

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