Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sanmen green crabs are at their richest and most flavorful. A farmer in the Dongying Economic and Technological Development Zone harvest a large quantity of Sanmen green crabs. A Sanmen green crab cultivated in the Dongying Economic and Technological Development Zone. After more than five years of improvements, the local agricultural company has successfully established Sanmen …
A rescue team releases an endangered sea turtle into the sea at the Watamu National Marine Park in Kenya in August. LOCAL OCEAN CONSERVATION The community-led projects initiated along the Kenyan coastline to find a balance between use and conservation, and fishermen's needs today and their fate tomorrow, are bearing fruit. Watamu, a small town in Kilifi County about 108 …
This article was originally published on The Conversation. At risk of exploitation and injury Immigrant workers in rural regions work dangerous jobs and are exposed to pollution, deplorable living conditions and limited safety training. Challenges to rural health Despite the daily risk of harm, migrant workers in rural regions have limited access to health care and rely on mobile clinics, …
Invasive green crabs are threatening local species. Well, let's not oversimplify, but invasive green crabs have been increasing on the West Coast for more than 30 years, and researchers say the population of these European shellfish now threaten local species like the celebrated Dungeness crab. SCHOOLER: When the Dungeness crabs are large, they'll eat the green crabs. SCHOOLER: And the …
The rats evicted from paradise Island Conservation The Palmyra atoll was an uninhabited tropical paradise – until the rats arrived Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century invasion of black rats arrived, setting the whole atoll’s ecology hurtling down a different path. Island Conservation By preying on seabirds and land crabs, rats changed not just …
