Carlos Mallo Molina grew up inspired by his engineer father who led port construction projects across Spain. But while working on a highway project in Tenerife, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, Molina realized that a related plan to build a port in a marine protected area threatened the marine ecosystem that he had come to love. In a May Mongabay Newscast episode, Molina told host Mike DiGirolamo about his decision to quit engineering in 2018 and found the nonprofit Innoceana, which contributed to the cancellation of the proposed port. “I was a diver since I was a kid. And I think that connected me to the ocean in a very deep way,” Molina told Mongabay, adding that it was his father who encouraged his love for the ocean. When he started working in Tenerife as a civil engineer, he continued t

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