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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. Two

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Speaker 1: women were arrested in Thailand earlier this month for trying

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Speaker 1: to smuggle one nine live animals out of the country.

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Speaker 1: The women were attempting to board a flight to India

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Speaker 1: from Bangkok, but officials stop them after a routine X

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Speaker 1: ray inspection of their baggage revealed something unusual. Along with

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Speaker 1: toiletries and food items, officials discovered seventy lizards, twenty snakes,

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Speaker 1: two white porcupines, and two armadillos kind of like a

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Speaker 1: mini arc for the overhead band. Both women have been

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Speaker 1: arrested and charged with violations of Thailand Wildlife Preservation and

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Speaker 1: Protection at Customs Act in Animals Epidemic Act. Photos posted

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Speaker 1: online show that the women had stuffed the animals and

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Speaker 1: plastic ventilated crates and then stuffed those crates into their luggage.

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Speaker 1: The armadillos had been covered in straw, and the turtles

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Speaker 1: had been stacked in a bucket. Several iguanas had already died,

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Speaker 1: and all the reptiles were dehydrated by the time they

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Speaker 1: were found. The animals were worth about fifty seven hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars in the black market, according to the India Times.

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Speaker 1: Some would be used for traditional medicines, while others would

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Speaker 1: be sold as exotic pets. Now you might be asking yourself,

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Speaker 1: how did these women hope to get through security? How

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Speaker 1: hard can it be to see live animals and luggage

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Speaker 1: X rays? In order to get those answers, you'll have

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Speaker 1: to ask your friendly neighborhood t s a agent. But

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Speaker 1: these women weren't the only traffickers who hope to fly

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Speaker 1: and detect it. Officials have seized nearly one thousand animals

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Speaker 1: at this Taire airport since the beginning of the year,

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Speaker 1: according to NGOs that monitor animal trafficking. Makes me think

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Speaker 1: that the children of these airport employees are extremely happy.

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Speaker 1: Did you bring me anything home from work today? Here's

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Speaker 1: the takeaway. If you'd like to add a few more

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Speaker 1: turtles or lizards to your home aquarium, make sure you

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Speaker 1: know where they're coming from, and for goodness sake, don't

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Speaker 1: order them from Amazon or Craigslist. This week, we've got

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Speaker 1: crabs crime and don't mess with coyotes. But first, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you about my week. As you know, my

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Speaker 1: week is sponsored by Steel Power Equipment, makers of the

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Speaker 1: world's finest chainsaws, and chainsaws is what I and many

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Speaker 1: other fellow volunteers are dropping off to Montana's Block Management participants.

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Speaker 1: Block Management is the name of our private land public

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Speaker 1: access program here in the state, which varies year to

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Speaker 1: year in size, but currently landowners in the program add

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Speaker 1: an additional seven million acres of public hunting, which is

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Speaker 1: a huge deal. The idea behind this program is to

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Speaker 1: give landowners a cash incentive to allow public hunting as

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Speaker 1: well as provide hunting pressure that will remove and move

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Speaker 1: animals off of their private grazing and agriculture ground. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's a fantastic program and one that we really appreciate,

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Speaker 1: which is why we put together a big thank you

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Speaker 1: between Meat Eater and all of you who participated in

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Speaker 1: the TRCP raffle. We raised a bunch of cash purchase

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Speaker 1: steel chainsaws and cash cards for forty six randomly drawn

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Speaker 1: participating landowners across the seven different hunting regions of Montana.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna talk a lot more about this on

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Speaker 1: a future Access dedicated episode, but on the topic, Please

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Speaker 1: keep in mind we're still looking to help out even

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Speaker 1: more by finding that perfect property. Please submit a place

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Speaker 1: that you know could use more access to hunting and

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Speaker 1: fishing at the Meat eater Land Access Initiative. Go to

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Speaker 1: the meat eater dot com and look under the conservation

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Speaker 1: tab for more. Moving on to the crab desk, which

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Speaker 1: is not to be confused with the crabs desk, which

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Speaker 1: is a very very different desk. Crab is delicious and

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Speaker 1: so is bourbon. But together, One New Hampshire distillery believes

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Speaker 1: this unlikely pair can make money and fight an invasive

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Speaker 1: species all at the same time. Thanks to Matthew Boka

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Speaker 1: for sending this one. In Tamworth Distilling has created a

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Speaker 1: new kind of whiskey infused with green crab stock. They've

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Speaker 1: called it Crab Trapper, and distillery founder Steve Grass described

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Speaker 1: it as a briny and better fireball. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that the world needs another fireball, but I do know

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Speaker 1: that New England doesn't need any more green crabs. The

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Speaker 1: species arrived on our shores in the eighteen hundreds and

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Speaker 1: it's wreaked havoc on coastal ecosystems ever since, the crabs

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Speaker 1: eat clams, oysters and muscles, and crab fishermen don't want

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Speaker 1: market for this invasive species. Tamworth Distilling worked with the

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Speaker 1: University of New Hampshire to develop the Crab Trapper. They

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Speaker 1: started with a bourbon base, added a crab stock made

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Speaker 1: with over ninety pounds of crabs, and mixed in a

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Speaker 1: spice blend that included paprika, bay, mustard seed, allspice and cinnamon,

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Speaker 1: among other spices. The distillery says it's supposed to remind

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Speaker 1: drinkers of a low country crab boil. Maybe that's not

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Speaker 1: your jam, but if it is, you can pre order

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Speaker 1: a two hundred milli later bottle for sixty five bucks.

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Speaker 1: Green crabs aren't the only crab species that have become

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Speaker 1: unexpectedly useful. Many people don't know this, but the blood

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Speaker 1: of horseshoe crabs is one of the most useful medical

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Speaker 1: substances in existence. The bright blue blood isn't an ingredient

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Speaker 1: in medicines, but it is used by pharmaceutical companies to

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Speaker 1: test their products for the existence of endotoxins. Some of

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Speaker 1: those products are vaccines, including the vaccine against COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 1: The blood contain and immune cells that are exceptionally sensitive

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Speaker 1: crabs body from toxins. Horseshoe crab blood can be harvested

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Speaker 1: without killing the animal, and the American horseshoe crab is

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Speaker 1: not considered endangered or threatened. Unfortunately, I can't say the

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Speaker 1: same for the final crab species in this hard shell

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Speaker 1: round up blue crabs. There isn't enough blue crab sperm

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Speaker 1: to go around. Sure you've heard that one before, but

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Speaker 1: this time it's real. Oh what I wouldn't give to

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Speaker 1: have a less like that on miklaw. According to a

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Speaker 1: recent report in The Washington Post, the chess Peak Bay

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Speaker 1: eight million in two thousand twenty one to just nine

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Speaker 1: because fewer females mean fewer little crabs swimming around. When

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Speaker 1: blue crabs mate, the male usually deposits enough sperm to

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Speaker 1: eggs for one season. Ultimately, this could result in an

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Speaker 1: the climate change desk, polar bears are kind of post

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Speaker 1: your child for climate change, and rightly so. These largest

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Speaker 1: of the land predators rely on sea ice to hunt seals.

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Speaker 1: that day's meal. One polar bear population in Greenland, however,

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Speaker 1: we've covered several stories recently about private landowners selling, prohibiting,

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Speaker 1: in a state without much public land, it's even more

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Speaker 1: important to secure permanent access to the places you love

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Speaker 1: to hunt, fish, and hike. Iowans have a chance to

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Speaker 1: do just that. Less than two percent of the state

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Speaker 1: organizations are working to increase that number by one hundred

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Speaker 1: is in Ida County, south of Battle Creek, Iowa. Ida

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Speaker 1: Recreation Area, which is two d and sixty acres and

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Speaker 1: contains a sixty two acre lake. The Smith Wildlife Area

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Speaker 1: That's why Ida County Pheasants, Forever Ducks Unlimited, and the

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Speaker 1: Iowa Chapter of back Country Hunters and Anglers, along with

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Speaker 1: to the Ida County Conservation Board. This will allow public

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Speaker 1: that about six of the new property drains into Crawford Lake.

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Speaker 1: If it had been sold off and turned into agriculture,

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Speaker 1: it would have risked damaging the lake's ecosystem. Having that

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Speaker 1: natural prairie grasses and and preventing from being build up

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