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  • Wild ferns purchased from Khua Din early morning fresh food market, Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • A roadside stall selling blackberries gathered from the wild in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Foraging for wild food is an important part of the subsistence farmers way of life and they know where to find different items in the fields and forests around the village.
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  • A Khmu woman bashes riverweed collected from the stream on a rock, Ban Borhat, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A young Laoseng ethnic minority girl prepares river weed collected from the Nam Ou river, Ban Moungava, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • An elderly Laoseng ethnic minority woman and her grand-daughter prepare river weed collected from the Nam Ou river, Ban Moungava, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Nguan, a Tai Dam ethnic minority woman forages for vegetables in the rice field, Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Tan, a Tai Lue ethnic minority man holds a fish he has caught in the river and then smoked over an open fire, Ban Bo Ha village, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR.  For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Tan, a Tai Lue ethnic minority man prepares his rods for fishing in the river nearby Ban Bo Ha village, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • An elderly Tai Dam woman returns from foraging in the forest with a Mak Kouk fruit wrapped in banana leaves. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A roadside stall selling mushrooms gathered from the forests in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Foraging for wild food is an important part of the subsistence farmers way of life and they know where to find different items in the fields and forests around the village.
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  • Fish for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos. market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Bamboo shoots, fish, crabs, wild herbs and aubergines for sale at a roadside market in Vientiane province, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in roadside markets all over Laos.
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  • Bamboo shoots, fish, wild herbs and aubergines for sale at a roadside market in Vientiane province, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in roadside markets all over Laos.
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  • Fergus Drennan collects a pheasant on the road, killed by a car at Bishopstone near Herne Bay, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan collects a pheasant on the road, killed by a car at Bishopstone near Herne Bay, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan ,known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan known as 'Fergus the Forgager".Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan picks Cow Parsley at Bishopstone near Herne Bay, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan picks Cow Parsley at Bishopstone near Herne Bay, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan picks Gorse at Bishopstone near Herne Bay, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan picks Gorse at Bishopstone near Herne Bay, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan collects Birch sap from a friends garden, Chartham, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan collects Weeping Willow catkins by the River Stour, Chartham, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan collects Jelly Ear Mushrooms, Chartham, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • A Tai Lue ethnic minority man walks along the road carrying a large honeycomb, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. For many families food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.
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  • A Romanian peasant farmer prepares mushrooms she has collected from the forest, Glod, Maramures, Romania. Foraging for wild food is an important part of the subsistence farmers way of life and they know where to find different items in the fields and forests around the village.
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  • Fergus Drennan preparing a road-kill squirrel to eat at home in Chartham, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fergus Drennan picks Cow Parsley at Bishopstone near Herne Bay, Kent, UK.Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' is a chef, wild food experimentalist and educator.
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  • Fish for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Bats for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Fish for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Bamboo shoots for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Bats for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Fish for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Ant eggs for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild. Insects such as ants, crickets, wasps and their nests are especially easy to find in nearby forests and fields. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Fish for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • A large snake for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Small fish for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Riverweed for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Powdered riverweed for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Small fish for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Ant eggs for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild. Insects such as ants, crickets, wasps and their nests are especially easy to find in nearby forests and fields. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Ant eggs for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild. Insects such as ants, crickets, wasps and their nests are especially easy to find in nearby forests and fields. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Fried grasshoppers for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild. Insects such as ants, crickets, wasps and their nests are especially easy to find in nearby forests and fields. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Honeycomb with bee larvae for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild. Insects such as ants, crickets, wasps and their nests are especially easy to find in nearby forests and fields. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Field crabs for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild including small crabs collected from the rice fields. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Local produce including wild dok kare flowers, grass hoppers, birds and mushrooms for sale at Hua Kua evening market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Fish and vegetables for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Bamboo shoots for sale at Hua Kua market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • A large snake for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Fish for sale at Don Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane city, Lao PDR. The Lao are very reliant on products collected or caught from the wild in nearby forests, fields and streams. A walk through any market will illustrate the agro and bio-diversity of Laos.
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  • Small fish purchased from Khua Din early morning fresh food market, Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Ramsons otherwise known as wild garlic growing in Millington Woods, the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 18th May 2018. This beautiful ash wood occupies Lily Dale, a typical dry valley of the Yorkshire Wolds, and has the distinctive features of a chalk karst landscape
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  • Samphire for sale at a roadside stall in the village of Salthouse, along the North Norfolk coast, United Kingdom on 8th June 2018. Samphire also known as sea asparagus is found widely in Norfolks coastal marsh regions and is a popular foraged food
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  • Samphire for sale at a roadside stall in the village of Salthouse, along the North Norfolk coast, United Kingdom on 8th June 2018. Samphire also known as sea asparagus is found widely in Norfolks coastal marsh regions and is a popular foraged food
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  • Samphire for sale at a roadside stall in the village of Salthouse, along the North Norfolk coast, United Kingdom on 8th June 2018. Samphire also known as sea asparagus is found widely in Norfolks coastal marsh regions and is a popular foraged food
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  • Fresh bamboo shoots for sale at Chiang Dao twice monthly fresh morning market, Chiang Mai province, Thailand. Local hill tribes throng to the market to sell their products and buy necessities.
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  • Frogs for sale at Hua Kua evening market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Live crabs for sale at Hua Kua evening market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Riverweed for sale at Dong Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls
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  • Fried insects for sale at Dong Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Mushrooms, grass hoppers and hog plums for sale at Dong Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Dok kare flowers, hog plums and aubergines for sale at Dong Mak Kai market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Prepared bamboo shoots collected from the forest purchased from Hua Kua evening market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Foraged Boletus fungi in Grizedale Forest, Cumbria on 28th September 2018
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  • Portrait of an Icelandic farmer and his son holding greglag geese they have shot in their fields, Dalvik, Iceland
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  • Portrait of an Icelandic farmer and his son holding greglag geese they have shot in their fields, Dalvik, Iceland
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  • An Icelandic farmer walks through a field of plastic decoy geese with two dead greylag geese he has just shot, Dalvik, Iceland
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  • Two Tai Dam ethnic minority women take a break from collecting 'Nor Khom', bitter bamboo shoots in the forest, Ban Na Kham, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. They are collecting them both for their own consumption and for selling at the small roadside market in the village of Ban Na Mor.
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  • Washed and prepared riverweed collected locally and for sale at the market in Boun Tai, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR
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  • A road-killed squirrel prepared to eat by Fergus Drennan, known as 'Fergus the Forager' at his home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' preparing a road-kill squirrel to eat at home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' preparing a road-kill squirrel to eat at home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • A road-killed squirrel prepared to eat by Fergus Drennan, known as 'Fergus the Forager' at his home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' preparing a road-kill squirrel to eat at home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • Foraged Boletus edulis mushroom in Grizedale Forest, Cumbria on 28th September 2018. Also known as porcini, cep and penny bun
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  • A farmer holds a dead greylag goose which he has shot at his farm in Dalvik, Iceland
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  • Heads of plastic decoy geese used for hunting greylag geese lying on a field in Dalvik, Iceland
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  • A road-killed squirrel prepared to eat by Fergus Drennan, known as 'Fergus the Forager' at his home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • A road-killed squirrel prepared to eat by Fergus Drennan, known as 'Fergus the Forager' at his home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • Fergus Drennan , known as 'Fergus the Forager' preparing a road-kill squirrel to eat at home in Chartham, Kent, UK
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  • A woman collects riverweed from under the rocks in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The riverweed will later be washed, dried and eaten or sold at the market in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A young Tai Lue boy goes fishing in the Nam Lan river, Ban Nawai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. He wears a bamboo basket for keeping the small fish he catches and a diving mask over his eyes. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A young Tai Lue boy goes fishing in the Nam Lan river, Ban Nawai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. He wears a bamboo basket for keeping the small fish he catches and a diving mask over his eyes. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • 70 year old Thaokham holds his snares for catching birds and wild chickens in the Phunoi village of Ban Nongkinnaly, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The Phunoi village of Ban Komenmai was relocated to join with Ban Nongkinnaly in November 2013 to make way for the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6. The villagers are very happy with their new houses but daily life is more difficult because before they were able to fish on the Nam Ou and snare catch birds and wild chickens. Now it is much more difficult to get food because they have to share the forest with the other villagers.
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  • An Akha Ya-er woman and her daughter from Ban Houay Phod, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR collect crustaceans from under the rocks with a net in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • A young Akha Pouli boy from Ban Picherkao with a bird he has caught with a trap, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • An Akha Ya-er woman and her daughter from Ban Houay Phod, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR collect crustaceans from under the rocks with a net in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • An Akha Ya-er woman from Ban Houay Phod, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR collects crustaceans from under the rocks using a net in the Nam Pa river (a tributary of the Nam Ou) in Pak Nam Noi. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Local boatmen/fishermen cook wild deer meat and small fish which they have just caught by net in the Nam Ou river over an open fire, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The Nam Ou river connects small riverside villages and provides the rural population with food for fishing. But this river and others like it, that are the lifeline of rural communities and local economies are being blocked, diverted and decimated by dams. The Lao government hopes to transform the country into ‘the battery of Southeast Asia’ by exporting the power to Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • Wild fern shoots wrapped in banana leaves for sale at Pak Nam Noi market, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR. The small town of Pak Nam Noi hosts a weekly market which is the meeting place for villagers from the nearby hill tribe villages and a place to sell their home grown produce.  It also sells a wide range of Chinese goods including clothes, toiletries and food products.
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  • A Ko Pala ethnic minority woman sells wild fern shoots wrapped in banana leaves at Pak Nam Noi market, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. The small town of Pak Nam Noi hosts a weekly market which is the meeting place for villagers from the nearby hill tribe villages and a place to sell their home grown produce.  It also sells a wide range of Chinese goods including clothes, toiletries and food products.
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  • An ostrich chick stands alone in a private pen, beneath a heat lamp at the ostrich farm belonging to Robert and Nina Bailey near Chepstow, Wales. The reddish glow from the heat source concentrates life-giving energy into the young bird, helping it survive the first three months after hatching. Rearing these birds is a specialist and very expensive business but Ostrich meat is a South African delicacy, used for Biltong. Nutritionists promote it as a more healthy alternative because it is higher in protein and lower in fat and cholesterol. An ostrich lays an egg every other day, of which 40 to 80% are fertile. In the wild there is a 95% failure rate but using an incubator like this almost guarantees total success. Its latin name, 'Struthio camelus', is the largest of living birds with some males reaching a height of 8 ft (244 cm) and weighing 200 to 300 lb (90-135 kg). In the wild, the polygamous male has from two to six females in his flock. The cock scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which weigh nearly 3 lb (1.35 kg) each. One of the females incubates the eggs during the day, and the cock takes over at night. On the savannah they can run at 40mph (64 kph) for 10 hours though their top speed can reach 80mph. During the 19th-century vogue for ostrich plumes, farms were established in South Africa and later in North America, Australia, and Europe; after World War I fashions changed and the industry collapsed.
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  • 'Het Khao', white mushrooms collected from the wild and sold at the roadside market in the Tai Dam village of Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash. Ban Na Mor market is ideally situated on route 13 which goes to the border with China allowing them to take advantage of the many Chinese tour buses and businessmen passing through.
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  • Wrapped leaves containing white mushrooms (het khao) collected from the wild and sold at the roadside market in the Tai Dam village of Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash. Ban Na Mor market is ideally situated on route 13 which goes to the border with China allowing them to take advantage of the many Chinese tour buses and businessmen passing through.
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  • Pak koud (fern) collected from the wild and sold by Ko Pala women at the market in Pak Nam Noi, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash.
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  • Pak koud (fern) collected from the wild and sold by Ko Pala women at the market in Pak Nam Noi, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash.
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  • Wild birds for sale in the roadside market, in the Tai Dam ethnic minority village of Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash. Ban Na Mor market is ideally situated on route 13 which goes to the border with China allowing them to take advantage of the many Chinese tour buses and businessmen passing through.
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  • Wild birds for sale in the roadside market, in the Tai Dam ethnic minority village of Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash. Ban Na Mor market is ideally situated on route 13 which goes to the border with China allowing them to take advantage of the many Chinese tour buses and businessmen passing through.
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  • Stag beetles collected from the wild and sold at the roadside market in the Tai Dam village of Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash. Ban Na Mor market is ideally situated on route 13 which goes to the border with China allowing them to take advantage of the many Chinese tour buses and businessmen passing through.
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