As assistant to a fisherman fumbles with his home-made lamp at arid-land mangrove forest near Karachi, Pakistan.
Fishermen and their assistants are facing tremendous pressures on land and on sea as fish sources are depleting faster due to foreign trawlers taking the best catch away to Japan and EU markets. Therefore, they have to supplement their income by taking tourists for picnic. Thanks to the muddy conditions in the mangroves many visitors stick to their boats and rarely venture into the forest. In that way the forests are protected.
Unfortunately, mafia is out there cutting forests at an alarming rate despite complete ban on such activities. Another problem: Indus river is getting slower and slower thanks to fast growing population up-country and building of un-necessarily large dams in Punjab province.
For now, these fishermen will continue finding their bread even in darkness.
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