“The mangroves are like homes ... Piangueras collect, clean and pack the mollusks to sell them mainly to Ecuador. Image by Catherine Ellis. But around 30 years ago, Ecuador, where piangüa ...

A nine-hectare mangrove area in the coastal village of Paraiso here is being eyed as urban green space in the bid to boost ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mangrove forests globally support an estimated 700 billion juvenile fish and invertebrates of commercial importance each year. Analysis of 37 species across ...

“The mangroves are like homes ... increased its demand and the mollusk became commercialized. The popularity of harvesting piangüa boomed, and piangüa populations started to deplete.