Goldman Prize winner’s shift from engineer to activist in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Mongabay
Aug 13, 2025, 2:23 pm184 ptsTrendingTop
Carlos Mallo Molina grew up inspired by his engineer father who led port construction projects across Spain. But while working on a highway project in Tenerife, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, Molina realized that a related plan to build a port in a marine protected area threatened the marine ecosystem that he…

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