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100%) / 2 );height:0"><div data-component="component-container" class="container px-3 sticky top-[120px]"><div class="mx-auto w-full md:w-10/12 md:px-8 lg:w-8/12"><div class="text-center text-center" data-testid="advertisement-element"><div id="dfp-ad-imu2" class="adunit-component"></div></div></div></div></div><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">Ten years later, thanks to donations and the support of some winegrowers, the association has planted more than 700 such trees in the hilly Langhe area, including poplars, oaks and lindens. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">“Notu passed on to me his passion for truffle hunting and tree preservation,” said Marenda, emerging from his metallic grey Fiat Panda 4X4, the preferred car of truffle hunters. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">In the last three decades, the areas dedicated to white truffles in Italy have dropped by 30 per cent, gradually giving way to more profitable vineyards, but also hazelnut groves. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">The Langhe hills provide a large quantity of hazelnuts to the chocolate giant Ferrero, which was founded in 1946 in Alba, a small prosperous town of 30,000 inhabitants. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">But the main threat to the white truffle, whose harvest was classified as an intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco in 2021, is climate change. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">Global warming, drought, deforestation and sudden temperature changes are all factors weakening the natural habitat of this fungus. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">To survive, the truffle needs cold and humidity. At the beginning of November, however, the temperature was at 20 degrees Celsius. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">“With the prolongation of summer weather, production is definitely falling”, Marenda lamented. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">The harvest, running from October to the end of January, is getting shorter. And with the delayed cold and snow to arrive, “the aroma of the truffles is not yet 100 per cent and they don’t keep as long”, Marenda noted. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">Abundant rain, as seen in recent weeks, can also be harmful, he explained. “If there is too little water, the truffle does not grow. If there is too much, it rots.” </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">Alerted by Buk, Marenda crouched down to the ground to delicately scratch the earth with a narrow spade, extracting a truffle, albeit rather modest in size. </p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">On whether the white truffle is on the brink of extinction, experts say that it is not too late. “Not yet. But if we don’t act, it could become so,” said Mario Aprile, president of the Piedmont truffle hunters’ association.</p><p class="mb-4 md:mb-6 leading-8 -tracking-5%" data-story-element="paragraph" data-testid="paragraph-component">“The white truffle cannot be cultivated, unlike the black one. Without trees, there are no truffles. 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