In 1989, a Japanese oyster farmer began planting trees in the mountains to save his dying bay; the river cleared, and marine life returned

If you have ever eaten oysters at a coastal restaurant, you have benefited from something you probably never think about: forests. That is the idea behind one of the more overlooked environmental stories of the last 40 years, from a small bay in Japan. This account is based on an interview Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, a Japanese oyster farmer, gave to UN News, published in May 2017 ahead of that year's UN Ocean Conference.