Trapped

Directed by Mads Engel, Joe Purtell · 2025

After North Carolina made picking the Venus flytrap a felony, a Black community that relied on the plant for generations must choose between minimum wage and the black market.

A surprising conservation story that shows who pays the price when protecting nature becomes law.

The Venus flytrap only grows naturally in one place in the world–North Carolina–and ecologists worry that the plant is in danger. In 2014, North Carolina lawmakers made picking the Venus flytrap a felony with a potential

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