IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee
@iucnfungi.bsky.social
We work to raise awareness of the importance of fungi and foster action to ensure their persistence and continued benefits to the environment and society.
📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is in ONE DAY 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are DUE AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/
Call for Abstracts - Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026
Abstract Submissions NOW OPEN The Program Committee is proud to announce that the submission of abstracts for the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference (GSB2026) is now open! Submission deadline is…
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Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Did you miss our webinar "Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2025"? You attended but want to see it again and share with your network?🍄💧 The video is now available: youtu.be/JowOyvd_Sks?... Follow our social media to keep updated about future activities: linktr.ee/IUCNSSCAquat... #aquaticfungi #conservation
Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2025
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🚨🚨🚨 Webinar alert! Come celebrate International Day of Biodiversity with us & learn all about #aquatic #fungi! @protectspecies.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social @mostfun.bsky.social @shoalorg.bsky.social
How can #citizenscience help save fungi? 🤔 Coordinated by FunCC member @cfemycolab.bsky.social, this review in @consletters.bsky.social explores challenges and solutions for how #citsci projects can turn data on #fungi diversity into actionable #conservation measures. 🍄🧪🌎 #conservationscience
Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬@cfemycolab.bsky.social · last yr.🍄 🧪🌍 #CitizenScienceMonth ends today, so I thought I'd share our review published last year in @consletters.bsky.social "The Power of Citizen Science to Advance Fungal Conservation" #citizenscience #conservationscience #conservation #ICYMI conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our latest issue highlights our partnership with the IUCN SSC, including an editorial by Chair Jon Paul Rodriguez and research on seahorses in Malaysia, northern muriquis in Brazil, white-bellied herons in India & much more: www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/issue/3F617C40589385EE28B3630A7FB62734
Gorillas in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park scratch the ground for truffles, not for insects as long assumed, study says. With these findings, Gaston Abea becomes Ndoki's first Indigenous lead author of a peer-reviewed scientific paper. 🌍 bit.ly/4cwC3Ky
But that’s starting to change. Through global collaborations, we're helping ensure more fungi are being assessed now than ever before. We’re also developing the tools to accelerate the Red Listing of fungi, so this often-overlooked kingdom further enters the conservation spotlight
This is a big deal, as fungi are often invisible - living underground, hidden in wood or in close relationships with other organisms, making them historically difficult to monitor and rarely included in global conservation priorities.
They are essential to life - sustaining plant growth, recycling nutrients, and supporting entire ecosystems. Yet many species remain unassessed. Urgent action is needed to assess more fungi & reduce their extinction risks - protecting fungi means protecting our planet’s future 🌏 ow.ly/EhFh50Vqoa7
BIG NEWS: Fungi take the spotlight on the IUCN Red List! 🌏🍄@iucnfungi.bsky.social For the first time, over 1,000 fungi have been assessed - helping us understand the threats they face from habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. 🧪⚒️ #FungiFridays #Conservation
Co-chair @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social and member Andreas Bruder were interviewed for SRF1, raising awareness about the importance of #aquaticfungi biodiversity and its #conservation. See full interview (swiss-german), after minute 15:05👉 tinyurl.com/bdcz7uh5 #funga #IUCNSSC @iucnfungi.bsky.social
Schweiz aktuell vom 24.03.2025 - Play SRF
Kindsmord im Könizbergwald: Obergericht verurteilt Mutter zu 18 Jahren, Kantonsparlament Zürich möchte Rückkehr der Förderklassen, spezielle aquatische Pilzsuche im Muggiotal
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🚨The addition of 482 newly assessed fungi species brings their number on the IUCN Red List to 1,300, of which at least 411 are at risk of extinction.🚨 tinyurl.com/3zdfysbr IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group will contribute to this efforts by assessing #aquaticfungi.💧🍄 #conservation #RedList
First 1,000 fungi on IUCN Red List reveal growing threats - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 27 March 2025 (IUCN) – The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban ...
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BREAKING NEWS: the number of #fungi species on the IUCN Red List has surpassed 1000!! 🥳🥳 Today's update confirmed that #deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving fungi to decline worldwide. It's the top story on the press release — iucn.org/press-releas...
First 1,000 fungi on IUCN Red List reveal growing threats - IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 27 March 2025 (IUCN) – The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban ...
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A recent study found funding bias towards large vertebrates at the expense of less charismatic species. 🌍🧪 Read more @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/... Listen to our podcast episode on this topic: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-j54ym-...
Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species
Study shows funding bias towards animals like rhino while other endangered species including amphibians and algae disregarded
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Fungal waves! Our research is on the cover of @nature.com. The study explores how mycorrhizal #fungi construct lace-like networks that move carbon outward from plant roots in a wave-like formation. Led by Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN, AMOLF. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 'Fungi gaining ground at recent CBD and IUCN meetings' by FunCC member Elizabeth S. Barron in the @oryxthejournal.bsky.social ☺️ Read on 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📣 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Are you a researcher exploring the underground? 🍄 Apply to become an Underground Explorer. Gain funding and support from our thriving community of myconauts. Help us spread the word. 🗓️ Deadline: 21 March 👉 Find out more and apply: https://buff.ly/3CludWr
Might be time to boost this again with new people arriving from fb. Thanks @paulrfoth.bsky.social for putting this together! go.bsky.app/Kt6UtG6
New paper relevant to @thegsbi.bsky.social Global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @lultimoalbero.bsky.social @manudelgado.bsky.social The study highlight that a large % of fungi remains unknown! limiting our capacity to conserve these key organisms!
Interested in lichen conservation? Check out our new article on the best way to go about carrying out lichen red list assessments.
🌱🍄 Our five commitments to accelerate and enhance scientific knowledge of plant and fungal diversity while increasing collaboration, benefit sharing and efficiency. Published today in Plants, People, Planet (not yet on 🦋— why @newphyt.bsky.social?) 🧪🌍 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting
Biological samples and their associated information are an essential resource used by scientists, governments, policymakers, practitioners and communities to ensure that biodiversity can be appropria...
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Join the @protectspecies.bsky.social team! We're hiring a Fungus Conservation Coordinator. Details and application form can be found by clicking the link. 🌍🧪🍄 bit.ly/FungusCoordi...
Want to connect with some FUN folks? Check out the starter pack created by @sally-mycology.bsky.social for people and organizations involved in fungal conservation. 🌍🧪🍄🦤
Sally Fryar 🍄💧 🇦🇺 🧬 🔬@sally-mycology.bsky.social · 2y agoI have made a starter pack for people and organisations involved in fungal conservation. Comment below if you would like to be added. #fungi 🌍 🧪 🦤 #conservation go.bsky.app/MaBDXD9
I have made a starter pack for people and organisations involved in fungal conservation. Comment below if you would like to be added. #fungi 🌍 🧪 🦤 #conservation go.bsky.app/MaBDXD9