Inspiring action for the ocean wins top environmental prize for ex-engineer

Inspiring action for the ocean wins top environmental prize for ex-engineer

Carlos Mallo Molina has been awarded the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for protecting the marine biodiversity of Tenerife, the most populated of the Canary Islands. On this episode of Mongabay's podcast, Molina explains what led him to quit his job as a civil engineer on a road project impacting the Teno-Rasca marine protected area (MPA) and his subsequent campaign to stop the port project it was planned to connect to, which would have impacted the biodiversity of the area.

His successful campaign contributed to the decision of the Canary Islands government to abandon the port plan. Now, Molina and his nonprofit Innoceana are helping set up an environmental education center in its place.

"I was going diving every weekend in my free time, and it was full of sea turtles, it was full of whales, it was full of marine life. And so, I think understanding how my impact was going to destroy [a] marine protected area … I think that was where I had my biggest click in my brain … I need to do something to change what I'm doing, in [a] way that I can protect this ocean," he says.

Image Credit: Pinnacles of Fonsalía, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Photo by Innoceana.

B-roll Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

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Timecodes

(00:00) From engineer to activist

(05:31) The biodiversity of Teno-Rasca

(06:58) Fighting for protection

(12:13) Shutting the port down

(16:29) A future of sustainable tourism?

(21:02) Future projects

(22:19) Carlos' connection to the ocean

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