Saving The Forgotten Kingdom - A Strategy to conserve the UK's fungi launcehd by Pla

[mollisia]

Originally Posted by Mushroomman

The thing fungi need protection from is the weather in britain , when you think it cant get any worse... It does!

Hi,

hmmm, that sounds strange to me. All the world tells that in Britain it's always raining - that's mushrooms paradise, isn't it?
What shall we say here, with our 420 mm of rain per year? There are years the first fungi after morels appear in end of october ....

best regards,
Andreas

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by mollisia

Hallo,

just a remark on my posting:
When I read it now, it has a touch of resignation and of "we can't do anything anyway, so let's do nothing".
This is not my intention, absolutely not!

But I want to draw the attention to the topics where really our fungal diversity gets lost and that a reservate here and another there is only a drop on a hot stone, really! But that doesn't mean that those drop were not welcome! It all is better than nothing, but this won't safe many fungi species, I'm sure of that.

best regards,
Andreas

I think your cynicism is well-founded. The environment always trails way behind other interests. If there is a blip in the economy, pressure on agriculture, demands for housing, runways, demands for biofuels etc, then good intentions that were already on a very small scale get trimmed back further, becoming merely rhetoric not even action. To use a colloquial phrase (which the auto-censor might object to) in terms of protecting the environment at the moment we are really just peeing in the wind ....

Melanie

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

I think your cynicism is well-founded. The environment always trails way behind other interests. If there is a blip in the economy, pressure on agriculture, demands for housing, runways, demands for biofuels etc, then good intentions that were already on a very small scale get trimmed back further, becoming merely rhetoric not even action. To use a colloquial phrase (which the auto-censor might object to) in terms of protecting the environment at the moment we are really just peeing in the wind ....

Melanie

Melanie I didn't know ladies did that

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by flaxton

Melanie I didn't know ladies did that

You've not seen the Full Monty then..

[FungiJohn]

Ladies please, there are children watcing

John