How community custody empowered Ecuador’s crab catchers and revived its mangroves

Mongabay
Nov 26, 2025, 6:36 am447 ptsHotTop
Puerto Buenavista Island is home to a small village of crab catchers and fishers in the middle of the waters of the Gulf of Guayaquil in Ecuador. There are only 30 families, 140 people, and their homes, built very close to each other, form a line of blues, reds, yellows and greens. Access to Puerto Buenavista…

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