Petition Protect our freedom to collect wild food from common land for personal use.

In light of the Forestry commission's unscientific & undemocratic decision to ban fungi picking in the New Forest, against the weight of evidence, we the undersigned demand the government enact legal protections for our rights to forage for personal use as per those detailed in the theft act 1968.

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http://www.conservationevidence.com/individual-study/230
25 year longitudinal study, showing mushroom picking has no effect on the fungal ecosystem.

Ref: 'New Forest fungi picking ban "unscientific" say fungi experts'

http://www.foragers-association.org.uk/index.php/press/new-forest-fungi-picking-ban-press-release

swedish model of "everyman's right"

http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/natrecspo/nature/every.html

Theft act: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/contents

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Date closed 5 March 2017
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