uma das nossas primeiras sobremesas, é uma bucha de chocolate baiano, chocolate excepcional, ali da região sul da Bahia , com cachaça envelhecida em umburana e um chantilly de cachaça branca de alambique, são clássicos do Mocotó.
Mantarraya, to an older fisherman, is that animal, Manta birostris. To a younger person in Bahia de los Angeles, mantarraya actually refers to a different set of species, because they've never seen Manta birostris. They've seen much smaller species that are about 4 or 5 feet across, members of the genus Mobula.
December holidays. I remember many times our friends would say, "But why are you coming? Let's go!" I remember once some friends organized a trip to Bahia in December, and I said, "I ca n't make it. My birthday is on the 30th, not the 27th. Why is it the 30th? It's
from investors, from share holders, from customers, from NGOs, all this pressure is routed in some realities about what’s going on with our natural world and with our natural ecosystems. And I took this picture recently in Bahia , a few weeks ago in Brazil. This tree is kind of overtaking this natural structure that we had built and I was thinking how, in fact, you know we tend to think about ecosystems again as this other thing, but in fact these are these remarkable natural biological infrastructures that have been built through R and D for four
How do we hold those together? What was in the process of happening in Bahia to the word mantarraya had already happened on the internet with the term
was a small remnant of what was once there. And you could say that's because I'm not local to Bahia de los Angeles, which I'm not. But also, there's an entire generation of inhabitants of Bahia do Los Angeles who also have never seen a rocky reef rich with sea cucumbers.
How do we hold those together? I entered the words manta ray, Bahia de los Angeles.
And the reason it stuck with me is that it struck me as the solution to a problem, the answer to a question that has occurred to me often in many different places, certainly in Bahia de los Angeles. Here's the question. Why are we such dismal stewards of the natural world?
And you could say that's because I'm not local to Bahia de los Angeles, which I'm not. But also, there's an entire generation of inhabitants of Bahia do Los Angeles who also have never seen a rocky reef rich with sea cucumbers. For them, too, this is the state of nature.
I'll give you an example. So that manta ray, when I started looking in the history of the manta ray in Bahia de los Angeles, the first place I found records was in writings from the pearl industry.