Broken by the bends: the deadly toll on Honduras’s Indigenous lobster divers

More than 4,000 #Indigenous #Miskito #divers have in recent years suffered disabling injuries as a consequence of #decompression #sickness – the equivalent of roughly one in every nine men above the age of 14 in the entire department. At least 400 have died, and countless others have been lost at sea.

#honduras #exploitation #bends #marine #safety
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/02/honduras-lobster-divers-indigenous-miskito-bends?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The scarlet macaw population in Central America’s largest wilderness area had dwindled drastically. The Indigenous #Miskito people stepped in to help save them.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/miskito-scarlet-macaw-conservation-honduras #indigenous #centralamerica