“This is one of the few documented cases of a fungus being threatened by overharvesting,” said Gregory Mueller, who heads up IUCN’s Fungal Conservation Committee.
Ophiocordyceps sinensis is also known as the Caterpillar Fungus, or Yarchagumba, which means “summer plant, winter insect” in Tibetan. To grow, it needs a specific climate with winter temperatures below freezing but where the soil is not permanently frozen.Every spring in Nepal, houses and schools empty as thousands of villagers make the sometimes perilous journey up into the mountains to collect it.But this year Kathmandu banned the annual trek to harvest the fungus during its lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic.
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