Thailand's Ao Kung Bay is home to a small-scale fishing community that has spent decades restoring 584 rai of mangrove forest and protecting coral reefs. Their work brought back fish catches and rare wildlife. Now a private yacht marina project is trying to dredge a channel through those same ecosystems, using a legal exemption meant for maintaining natural waterways. The article from La Via Campesina follows the community's fight against the marina, including an EIA with blacked-out sections and an aerial photo interpretation villagers say is fabricated. It also covers why younger people are returning to fishing after exploitative service sector jobs. For anyone tracking blue carbon or coastal conservation, it is a concrete case of development capital pushing out restoration gains.
