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In this Sept. 8, 2019, photo, the chef Polixeni prepares goat dishes in Ano Meria village, Samothraki island, northeastern Greece. Goat herding is a way of life on Samothraki, a hard-to-reach Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, but experts and locals are working together to control the animal population that has left its mountains barren and islanders under the threat of mudslides. (AP Photo/Iliana Mier)
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The goat population soared fivefold to an estimated 75,000 by the late 1990s.
