In latest decades throughout Italy, France and Spain truffle harvests have plummeted; melanosporum and magnatum pico finds are down tenfold since the 1950s, twenty-fold compared to the early 1900s. Factors broadly cited throughout Europe as contributing to the crisis embody systematic over-harvesting, overpopulation of wild boars, soil compaction from tractors, acid rain, and careless truffle hunters who fail to refill the holes they dig, thereby exposing spores to lethal frost. With our intensive community of truffle hunters in France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria, we're able to supply the best quality truffles from completely different regions of Europe.