Fungi need your help!
How?
1) By becoming a community scientist.
2) By becoming a monthly supporter to fungi and donating to FUNDIS’ mission.
3) By sharing the importance of protecting fungi with a friend.
The details:
Anyone can become a community scientist! Consider joining or starting your own FUNDIS Local Project. Are you already photographing mushrooms? Your observations can be useful for science and conservation. Check out how to make high quality mushroom observations, collections, and begin posting your observations on our iNaturalist FUNDIS Biodiversity Database.
Help us fill out our map of FUNDIS Biodiversity Database map of observations!
Fungi are essential, but left out of conservation. In Europe, 10% of fungi are threatened with extinction, but in North America, we don’t know what fungi are threatened because we have no baseline inventory. Help FUNDIS understand what fungi are where, what fungi are thriving or declining, and take action with our data. Help us ensure a thriving fungal future.
Tell your friends and family how they can get involved!
Sources
Hawksworth, D. L. & Lücking, R. Fungal diversity revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 million species. In The Fungal Kingdom (Heitman, J., Howlett, B. J., Crous, P. W., Stukenbrock, E. H., James, T. Y. & Gow, N. A. R., eds.), ASM Press, Washington D.C., pp. 79-95, doi:10.1128/9781555819583.ch4 (2017).
State of the World’s Fungi 2018; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Richmond, UK, 2018; ISBN 978-1-84246-678-0.