Sacrificing now for a brighter future

Mission to save the crabs: Ung Bun releasing female crabs with eggs back to sea as part of the government campaign to save the declining crabs in Angkoal village at the coast of the southern Kep province in Cambodia. — Reuters

For Ung Bun, a 39-year-old fisherman from Cambodia’s southern Kep province, the days when he would come home with plentiful catches of flower crabs appear to be long gone.

Pulling in his net one recent morning, he found just one crustacean. Ung Bun dropped the crab – a male that was too small – back into the sea.