April 16 2026

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Ghana declares its first marine protected area to save depleting fish stocks

Ghana declared its first marine protected area on April 14, 2026 — a 703-square-kilometer zone at Cape Three Points protecting critical spawning grounds for sardinella, anchovy, and mackerel.

The designation came after 15 years of conservation efforts and survived a major setback when USAID funding cuts threatened to derail the process in 2025. The MPA uses a co-management model with 21 coastal communities embedded in governance.

A majority of Ghana's population depends on these small pelagic fish for most of their animal protein.

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The paradox of what really is

I've had my fair share of what you might call spiritual, non-ordinary, or psychedelic experiences. It's been a big part of my path over the last decade.

One thing that has become abundantly clear to me is that everyone has totally different experiences; everyone has very different ways of comprehending the universe and reality.

Many of my friends have extraordinary visions during these experiences: ancient spirit beings hovering over and healing them, machine elves working away at the center of the Earth, black snakes oozing out of their stomachs. Anything and everything you could imagine.

But I rarely have any of those experiences. What I usually experience is simply a deep sense of access to my emotions and "inner children", and a profound connection to and reverence for all the things in the universe that are readily apparent and indisputable: the Earth, the Sun, the stars, the blackest of voids in between it all.

The message to me is clear: there is more than enough beauty, goodness, and wonder just in what we can see. No "woo-woo" beliefs or visions required. No need to see this world as an illusion and something else as the real reality.

That doesn't mean I'm right and they're all wrong. That just feels like the truth that is mine to live out. Others have their ways. They all have some kernel of Truth in them.

At the same time, there is a core tension to my way of seeing reality: according to today's best science, the vast majority of this known, observable universe is dark matter and dark energy, stuff that we cannot see and barely understand.

For me, this tension invites a practice of being with what is. And much of what is is unseen, deeply mysterious, waiting there ready to surprise me and disrupt my sense of reality.

Love,
Peter

Peter Schulte Coach, writer, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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