| Re: Fantastic day
Hmmm difficult one. Should we make use of what nature provides for us or not?
To me it's not black and white. If you know what you're doing, then taking ONLY what you would need, not as much as you can, surely can't do harm as long as there are plenty around.
Even when I'm looking around, although I don't eat them myself, if it's a solitary specimen, I leave it in situ and try not to disturb it too much for the sake of a photo. Even if it is a small group, they stay in place. I will only take a sample for spore print or further investigation IF there are a lot there.
If I took them, how many would be left for others to find, indentify and enjoy? I'm not the only one who has been hunting for fungi in my patch, judging by the single specimens disturbed, cut in half or laid out in a photogenic 'pose'. But whoever it is has made the minimum of disturbance and left them there for me to find too.
However, foraging on a commercial level, is not only risky to the species, but selfish and destructive. That's not the reason we like fungi is it?  |