Wednesday, 27 December 2017

The Amazon town, a coral reef, big oil, and a catastrophe waiting to happen

The Amazon town, a coral reef, big oil, and a catastrophe waiting to happen

Anchored in shallow, cloudy waters just a few hundred yards from the mangrove swamps that dominate this wild and empty coastline, the fishermen rolled in their nets. The three men had spent five days at sea and their catch glittered on the deck. “It’s good fishing,” said Cleyton Celeiro, 26, who feeds his wife and two children with money earned on trips to the Amapá state coast, on the far north-eastern corner of the Amazon. “It’s beautiful, I like it. I’m proud to be a fisherman.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/27/amazon-town-coral-reef-big-oil-a-catastrophe-waiting-to-happen?source=Snapzu

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