The way we produce and consume food has a huge bearing on biodiversity loss, deforestation, climate change, water scarcity, and water pollution. However, we have very limited information on the sustainability of different food producers or production practices across the indicators that we should be tracking. Specifically:

The coasts of Latin America have nurtured ancient cultures and traditional practices. It can be witnessed even today through Peruvian artisanal fishermen and their handmade sailboats, or the Chilean Mapuches (indigenous people) and their customary uses of the ocean, dating thousands of years. Nowadays, the ocean plays a crucial…

I have a son who is 2 years old, and he might never see a wild hedgehog.

It is a realisation that came to me only recently. I grew up watching hedgehogs regularly in the garden. They populate the pages of the story books that I once read and which I now read to him – he knows exactly what they are, and he loves them. There are still quite a few…

“Move aside, the net is going to land here!”

We heed the tandeil’s (captain) warnings and quickly move to a corner as 5 men heave up a massive net filled with half a tonne of the…

I was a stranger who looked and sounded foreign, yet before even asking who I was or what I wanted, she welcomed me into her home with a smile and hurriedly dragged a chair so that I could sit. When I told her that I was researching jaguars and their interactions with people in the area, her smile faded away. As we began the conversation, I quickly realized that the jaguar,…

Sharks, rays and their cartilaginous relatives are threatened with extinction. The primary threat to this ancient and diverse species group is overfishing.

In the eyes of the media and general public, this fishing pressure is driven by ‘finning’. In the classic narrative, reckless, cold-hearted ‘shark hunters…