Is This the Way Forward for Conservation in Fishing Communities?

The world I work in has an ugly history of conflict and human rights abuses, which have often set people and conservation against one another. The real magic went beyond profit. Leaders from Andavadoc joined force with two dozen neighboring communities to establish a vast conservation area along dozens of miles of coastline. Within five years, they'd secured legal rights from the state to manage over 200 square miles of ocean.