Suud, 50, started the engine, breaking the silence of the Segara Anakan area. Slowly, the boat known as a gondang-gandung, with the capacity to carry a dozen passengers, left the quay.

This is Suud's work, taking tourists around the bay to look at the green mangroves and the seagulls in the area known as the Mangrove Bedul Eco-tourism park, at the village of Sumberasri in Banyuwangi, East Java. He never imagined he could earn money from mangrov