REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT: Ocean Shock: Big Aquacultu..

“Not long ago, the clearing had been home to mangroves, saltwater-loving trees that anchor a web of life stretching from fish larvae hatching in the cradle of their underwater roots to the hornbills squawking at their crown. Now the trees’ benevolent presence was gone, in their place a swath of stripped soil littered with felled trunks as gray as fossils.

“Do you think we can find any food in this place now?” asked Bondien, a village leader of the Tombonuo people. “The company thinks it can do anything it wants — that we don’t count.”

The company is Sunlight Inno Seafood. Owned by Cedric Wong King Ti, a Malaysian businessman known as “King Wong,” it has bulldozed swaths of mangroves in the Tombonuo’s homeland in northern Borneo to make space for plastic-lined ponds filled with millions of king prawns.”



(This is part of “Ocean Shock”, a Reuters series exploring climate change’s impact on sea creatures and the people who depend on them.) PURU NI TIMBUL, Malaysia (Oct 30): Swinging his machete with an economy of movement that only the jungle can teach, Matakin Bondien lopped a stray branch from the p…

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