Mushroom enthusiasts create UK's first map of fungus sites

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: December 17, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

IT USED to be the sort of thing known only by wise old country people - where to find wild mushrooms. But now enthusiasts from all over the country have come together to plot the locations of every kind of fungus, tasty and poisonous, handsome and hideous, and produce what is, in effect, the first mushroom map of Britain.

It is the first list of British IFAs, or Important Fungus Areas, and it marks a scientific step forward in protecting a range of species that have been much neglected in conservation terms, compared with, say, birds, butterflies, wild flowers or mammals.

More than 500 IFAs ...

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