Sierra Leone’s island fishermen lament that Chinese traders have ruthlessly exploited one of the few natural resources they have left: sea cucumbers.
As evening falls over Sierra Leone’s Banana Island archipelago, bats stream from their beachside roosts to circle in their thousands over the jungle village of Dublin. Below them a struggle is playing out over an unexpected commodity – the lowly sea cucumber, a fleshy, sausage-shaped creature that scavenges for food on the seabed.
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