Let Them Eat Shrimp: The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea
by:
Kennedy Warne (author)
In Let Them Eat Shrimp, Kennedy Warne takes readers into the muddy battle zone that is the mangrove forest. Mangroves are often dismissed as foul wastelands, while in fact, they provide shellfish, crabs, honey, timber, and charcoal to coastal communities from Florida to South America to New...
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In Let Them Eat Shrimp, Kennedy Warne takes readers into the muddy battle zone that is the mangrove forest. Mangroves are often dismissed as foul wastelands, while in fact, they provide shellfish, crabs, honey, timber, and charcoal to coastal communities from Florida to South America to New Zealand. Yet to shrimp farmers and land developers, mangroves simply represent a good investment. A longtime journalist, Warne captures the insatiability of these industries and the magic of the mangroves. His vivid account will make every reader pause before ordering the shrimp.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781610910248
Publish date: February 23rd 2011
Publisher: Island Press
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
I will start off by saying that this was written by a journalist not a scientist. For this reason, I would take the sensationalist tone with a grain of salt. However, the author also appears to have interviewed villagers, gatherers of various species of sea life within the mangrove estuaries, and sc...
A copy of this book was provided for free via Netgalley for the purpose of review.Mangroves are something that I can honestly say I have never considered when it comes to climate change and environment destruction. For all my concerns about the rainforest, the ozone layer, the warming polar regions,...
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