Conservation takes cash, and philanthropic funding is notoriously fickle. To secure the future of its environmental efforts, this Dominican nonprofit is trying something new: making booze.
When Hurricane Maria swept through the Caribbean in 2017, tiny Dominica was hit particularly hard—howling winds and torrential rain damaged or destroyed 95 percent of the country’s housing stock. Similarly, Oceans Forward, a Dominica-based conservation organization focused on community-centered projects, lost most of its buildings and equipment. “Everything we had was destroyed,” says Jake Levenson, a marine biologist at the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the founder of Oceans Forward. Read more in Hakai.