Reporter’s Journal: a different kind of leopard
By Melati Kaye March is leopard coral grouper season in South Sulawesi’s Spermonde islands. The live fish sell for $30 per kilogram. Dead fish fetch less than a third of that price. Careful hook and line fishermen can sometimes manage to keep their catch alive. But a surer method is to stun the fish with cyanide, an illegal but widespread practice. This photo was taken by Mongabay.org’s Special Reporting Initiatives fellow...