How Aqua-Spark’s latest investment, Indian Ocean Trepang, farms sea cucumbers in an environmentally and economically-friendly way.

Look at a map and find Madagascar, the fourth biggest island on Earth, just off the coast of east Africa. Focus on the dry southwest and find the town of Toliara, capital of this impoverished region.Now imagine a drive northwards through the searing heat along a bumpy, sandy trail.

This young man walked 2 hours in the bush from his village. Here, he knows he will capture wild sea horses, a protected specie, that a clandestine Chinese reseller will then buy from him. He has no other way as the lagoons are getting empty.