Laurence McCook, director of Oceans Conservation at WWF-Hong Kong, in the New Territories. He tells Kate Whitehead why he will always put conservation and family first. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
‘I am terrified by what I see’: marine ecologist on a life devoted to coral reef conservation, and the unfolding biodiversity catastrophe
Born in 1960 in Canberra, Australia, Laurence McCook was always an outdoors type; jailed three times for advocating conservation, he became a marine ecologist
He tells Kate Whitehead about educating Hong Kong diners about sustainable fish consumption and his deep concern at the extent of the biodiversity catastrophe
