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Cash for Corals: Exploiting Ecosystems on Their Way to Extinction

Cash for Corals: Exploiting Ecosystems on Their Way to Extinction

by Tracy K | Mar 22, 2025 | The 4%, The 99%

On any given day, in shops around the world and online, customers can pay as little as a few dozen dollars to buy living corals for their aquariums. While some of these coveted, brightly colored pieces of coral are sourced from farms, others come directly from...
Time to Confront the Aquarium Trade’s ‘Gray Areas’

Time to Confront the Aquarium Trade’s ‘Gray Areas’

by Tracy K | Feb 9, 2025 | The 4%, The 62%

“We’ve got to shrink the flavors of fishes available to hobbyists.” This is not what I expected to hear from ornamental fish trade veteran Tim Haywood when we connected to discuss the aquarium industry. It’s rare to come across businessfolk calling for a constriction...
Saving Living Jewels: One Woman’s Mission to Shine a Light on the Ornamental Fish Trade

Saving Living Jewels: One Woman’s Mission to Shine a Light on the Ornamental Fish Trade

by Tracy K | Dec 7, 2024 | The 4%, The 99%

Nothing fascinates Monica Biondo more than the animals often referred to as the ocean’s “living jewels” — the vividly colored little fishes who dance around in its waters. Biondo, a Swiss marine biologist, became enamored with ocean life as a child after spending many...
Calls for change as tonnes of coral taken from Great Barrier Reef

Calls for change as tonnes of coral taken from Great Barrier Reef

by Tracy K | Mar 7, 2024 | The 4%

The marine aquarium trade is booming, with research showing 55 million invertebrates and fish are sold globally every year. Corals feature prominently in the sector, thanks to hobbyists’ preferences for mini reef replicas. Combined with their use in jewellery and...
It will take a village to save the world’s wild travellers

It will take a village to save the world’s wild travellers

by Tracy K | Feb 18, 2024 | The 4%

Migratory species are the Clark Kents of the natural world. They collectively run circles around the globe like Kent did as Superman to ‘turn back time’ ­in the 1978 movie. Migrating animals don’t traverse the Earth to revive a dead loved one, as the fictional...
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