Exclusive: Fingers of willow gloves, found in only two woodlands, will be rushed to Cumbria and tied to new trees

Fingers of a critically endangered fungus will this week be removed from its last sites in Scotland and fixed to trees in three woodlands in England to save it from extinction.

Willow gloves, which resembles the fingers of washing-up gloves and grows on dead trees, is found only in two woodlands, and the vast majority is living on just one fallen tree.

Mycologists will carefully remove sections of dead wood, as well as some fruiting bodies of the fungus in the Scottish Borders, and hurry them to Cumbria in a single day, where they will be tied to trees in three receptor sites.

  • mrcleanup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I thought we learned the, “let’s take this organism and infect a foreign ecosystem with it” lesson already.

    Edit: oh, it’s a reintroduction, they really should have said that in the title of the article instead of “moved”, carry on.