Stalker was brought up short by the headline in the national newspaper “ Mushroom Massacre Lands Trust In The Soup.” What could it be about? Seems like the National Trust in England got into a bit of hot water after an attempt to rewild a meadow went wrong after work destroyed “irreplaceable” waxcap mushrooms.
The Daily Telegraph reported that botanists accused the charity of “cowboy conservation” as grassland near Cockermouth was ploughed over in an vain attempt to create a wildflower meadow.
Waxcaps are brightly coloured mushrooms that grow on undisturbed ground, but are increasingly under threat from intensive farming.
