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Re:Mushroom Hunters Can't Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi by tbrownaw on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @11:39PM (#40665710)
> It’s always “well we plant new trees, so what’s the problem?”

This is a perfectly reasonable response to complaints that are about the overall amount of forest rather then about "this particular forest is beautiful and unique and shouldn't ever be touched... just like every other forest".

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Re:Mushroom Hunters Can't Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi by Nursie on Thursday June 13, 2024 @02:00AM (#40666390)
Not really, secondary forest is known to be less diverse in terms of both plant, animal and fungi species.

It's not just that you can't exactly recreate the original, it's that what you're recreating is often just a shadow of the ecosystems that were destroyed.

Better a shadow than nothing, of course, but better not to have destroyed it in the first place.

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