Mangrove forest restoration boosts Costa Rica communities (commentary)

Mongabay
Jul 24, 2020, 5:47 pm213 pts
“Twenty years ago, I collected between 600 to 800 a day – now I’m lucky if I can harvest 150.” Adrian Torres holds a black, shining, wrinkled mollusk (Anadara tuberculosa) the size of a small chicken egg. It is known as the “mud cockle,” or here along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, as the piangua.…

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