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BOSTON, MA - MAY 16: A basket filled by Tyler Akabane while foraging for garlic mustard and Japanese knotweed around Turtle Pond, near Enneking Parkway in Boston, is pictured on May 16, 2019. If you cant beat them, eat them. Thats the approach Forage is taking to invasive species, one of five major forces threatening around 1 million animal and plant species with extinction according to the United Nations. Earlier this month, the Cambridge eatery hosted its first Eat Your Invasives dinner, a multicourse feast featuring invasive species like garlic mustard, Japanese knotweed, and Asian carp. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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GRIMSBY, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: A Grey Seal pup lies in the grass at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust's Donna Nook nature reserve on November 24, 2014 in Grimsby, England. Seal pup numbers have increased on last year with over 800 pups born at the reserve so far. Large bull seals are the first to arrive at the reserve in late October or early November where they will wait for females. The Cow's arrive later and are herded into harems by the bulls, where they give birth to a single pup which is covered in white fur. The seals return to the North Sea in January before returning to the same area to give birth the following year. The Donna Nook reserve is the UK's premier destination to see Grey Seals and thousands of visitors from across the country come to see the wildlife spectacle every year. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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