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Pep González, a longtime mushroom forager, on a hunt for mushrooms in the forest.

Foragers in Catalonia embrace a new mushroom-hunting season after last year’s strict lockdown

Food

This year, mushroom-hunting season is more anticipated than ever after last year’s strict quarantine measures kept most people in their own municipalities for the entire winter. The tradition is particularly strong in the northeast region of Catalonia. 

White-tailed buck

Lead in hunted meat poses health risk to families and food banks

Health & Medicine
Flamingos have enjoyed a resurgence in Florida over the last 50 years. Notice that the young flamingo in the middle is gray and not the iconic pink. Flamingos gain their pinkish color over time through their diet — mainly shrimp.

New study sheds light on the debate over the origins of flamingos in Florida

Science
A grizzly feeds on dead salmon at the end of their spawning run in a river in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. Hunting grizzlies was banned throughout the vast region late last year.

British Columbia has a flourishing grizzly bear tourism industry

Environment
Visitors look on as an elephant and calf cross a road inside Zimbabwe's Hwange National Par

The Trump administration lifts ban on elephant trophies. This film shows how complex that can get.

Environment
Kodiak bear

Congress repeals a regulation limiting hunting in Alaska’s wildlife refuges

Environment

The Obama administration rule gave authority to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to regulate hunting in certain areas of Alaska. Congress wants to return authority to the state. Now a lawsuit is pending.

Young male lions at sunrise in Tanzania.

How hunting lions might actually help save them

Environment

Lions who repeatedly kill livestock are a big problem for farmers, but killing such “problem lions” is an equally big issue for the threatened animals. To save both cattle and cats, conservationists are now trying out mock hunts to chase away lions without getting rid of them for good.

Foraging geese

A fall ritual in the US has become less toxic — but no less deadly

Environment

The phrase, “Eat lead!” may soon vanish from regions where waterfowl and game birds are hunted in the US.

The total number of wild animals in the world has dropped by more than half in just 44 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund's new Living Planet Report. The report compiled data for more than 10,000 vertebrate species, along with trends in humanity'

Global wildlife populations have fallen by half — a stat that says it all

Environment

As humanity’s population has roughly doubled since 1970s, the earth has lost roughly half of its non-human animals over the past four decades. That’s the sobering conclusion of a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, which pins the blame for that decline squarely on humans.

A reporter finds China’s tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it

Environment

Tiger farms in China were supposed to help reduce the market for wild tiger parts. But a recent investigation suggests they may instead be fueling the market.

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