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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · 1d

So excited to be representing @spun.earth at the #IUCNCongress! 🌍✨ I’m eager to connect with you and explore how we can integrate mycorrhizal fungi into your conservation strategies. Schedule a time to meet up: www.spun.earth/events/iucn-...

Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · 1d

🚨SPUN’S Biodiversity Conservation Strategist, @catiacanteiro.bsky.social will be at the #IUCNcongress presenting our latest mycorrhizal maps to conservation leaders.

Schedule a meeting with Cátia: buff.ly/dy2amO3

Visit SPUN’s event page: buff.ly/aQ7L97Y

SPUN at IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025

www.spun.earth

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · 5d

One of the articles was written by myself, @adricorrales.bsky.social, @tobykiers.bsky.social and Kelcie Walther @spun.earth, with illustrations by Manvi Vakharia. I'm so thrilled with the outcome! www.currentconservation.org/integrating-...

integrating fungi in policy for a sustainable future | Current Conservation

Current Conservation integrating fungi in policy for a sustainable future

www.currentconservation.org

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · 5d

Current Conservation just published a special issue on fungal conservation. It is amazingly beautiful and creative, with great content! Don’t miss out on this fascinating exploration of fungi and their vital role in our ecosystems! 🍄‍🟫 💕 www.currentconservation.org/issues/19-3/

19.3 | Current Conservation

Before their ecological relevance and unique properties were revealed to me, my earliest memory of fungi was as a whimsical toadstool in the background of a fairytale book. Growing up, I also saw them...

www.currentconservation.org

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Aug 7

Our maps predicted the steppes of Kazakhstan as hotspots of fungal biodiversity. No samples had been collected to identify which mycorrhizal fungi exist there.

@bethanfmanley.bsky.social and @thecrobe.bsky.social went to ground truth the prediction and New Humanist wrote about it: buff.ly/oIg3dDo

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Sep 2

Check out our latest paper on AM fungi, knowledge gaps and @globalgoalsun.bsky.social Sustainable Development Goals... AM fungi might be too small for us to see, but are too important for us to lose! Amazing work led by @thecrobe.bsky.social and @bethanfmanley.bsky.social 👇

Justin Stewart @thecrobe.bsky.social · Sep 2

Over 70% of Earth's ecoregions have yet to be sampled for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

By analyzing eDNA sample locations, we found most soils are unsampled. Drylands are especially overlooked despite covering almost 1/3 of the Earth's terrestrial land.

academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...

Map of unsampled ecosystems for AM fungal eDNA from the GlobalAMFungi database.

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Jul 23

SPUN has just released its Underground Atlas, which maps the richness and endemism of mycorrhizal fungi. This incredible tool will aid in defining conservation priorities by incorporating mycorrhizal fungi into the process. I couldn't be prouder to work with the amazing team who put this together!

Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Jul 23

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 🧵

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨🍄 NatureServe is just hiring a Lead Mycologist for the first time! This position will have a major impact on fungal conservation in North America! So excited for what's coming! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/le...

NatureServe hiring Lead Mycologist in Arlington, VA | LinkedIn

Posted 5:17:01 AM. About NatureServeFor 50 years, NatureServe has been the authoritative source for biodiversity data…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · Mar 27

Join us for this #MoSTFun and most valuable new webinar series on EBVs! Brought to you in collaboration with GEO BON.

GEO BON @geobon.org · Mar 27

📢 New webinar on Essential Biodiversity Variables in collab with @mostfun.bsky.social & @biodiversaplus.bsky.social

Learn how EBVs bridge raw data & policy, their strengths, coverage across ecosystems & workflows from data collection to modeling

📅 April 9, 2pm CEST
🔗 mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Huzefa Raja @huzefaraj.bsky.social · Mar 27

Natipusilla limonensis, a freshwater fungus from submerged wood in the neotropics.

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FUNACTION @funaction.bsky.social · Mar 27

Having >1000 species of #fungi assessed is a great milestone!!

@funaction.bsky.social is working towards #aquaticfungi #conservation in close collaboration with @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social!

We will contribute to the assessment of aquatic fungi species. 💧🍄

Stay tuned!!

tinyurl.com/3zdfysbr

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 27

This is the result of the hard work of so many people, including members of @iucnfungi.bsky.social and staff @spun.earth

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 27

More than 1,000 species of fungi assessed in the IUCN Red List highlighting huge threats from habitat loss, pollution and climate change. Very sad news, but HUGE that IUCN picked up fungi to be the main focus of their 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 ...

iucn.org

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Mar 10

What’s happening beneath Patagonia’s changing landscape?

The Patagonian drylands’ native willows are being pushed out by invasive non-native ones—but how do #fungi fit into this story?

@nahpo.bsky.social a SPUN Underground Explorer, is digging into this mystery.👇📹
@martin-nunez.bsky.social

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Mar 12

Don't miss seeing @adricorrales.bsky.social speak at @thegsbi.bsky.social on March 19!

The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative @thegsbi.bsky.social · Mar 12

📣GSBI Speaks is back again in one week! Join us to learn about soil inoculation 🦠🍄

March 19, 2025, 9:30 MDT, 11:30 EDT, 15:30 GMT, 16:30 CET

Register here: buff.ly/UgQ3EeA

Learn more here:

buff.ly/TnwGnHF

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 14

Species live in connection with other species and not in isolation. We need to look at these interactions to make sure we are not losing any species in cascade. @iucnfungi.bsky.social @spun.earth @protectspecies.bsky.social

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 14

Damian Wrigley @mobotgarden.bsky.social again highlighting the importance of networks and collaboration for effective conservation. We can go further if we bring together different people with different expertise! I would also add that to save plants we also need to include the fungi and animals!

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 13

@drechsler-santos.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social @spun.earth

Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 13

Eduardo Fernandez @jardimbotanicorj.bsky.social on how the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation was crucial for plant conservation in Brazil! Brazil is already one of the leading countries in fungal conservation and we hope a Fungal Strategy will take it to the next level!

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 13

Great workshop @mobotgarden.bsky.social co-lead by @spun.earth @iucnfungi.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social Lots of opportunities to integrate a Global Strategy for Fungal Conservation with the Plant Strategy and GBF to ensure effective conservation for all species and people!

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 12

Emily Coffey from Atlanta Botanic Garden at the International Plant Conservation Conference @mobotgarden.bsky.social: How to keep a plant safe? Share it! Collaboration really is key in conservation! @spun.earth has been great on promoting collaborations through our UEP and associates programs!

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 12

Local communities must be part of the solution for conservation! @charlottecouch.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about the amazing work being done in Guinea and IPAs in close collaboration with the local communities. @mobotgarden.bsky.social

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 12

So much love for fungi in a plant conference @mobotgarden.bsky.social! Rachel Hoffmann shared a project from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social translocating the Scrambled egg lichen www.plantlife.org.uk/the-rare-lic... @iucnfungi.bsky.social @spun.earth

he Rare Lichen that Travelled from Cornwall to Norfolk

An incredible story of returning one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home – more than 350 miles away.

www.plantlife.org.uk

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Mar 12

We must protect #fungi to halt biodiversity loss by 2030. To that end, we're helping to develop a Global Strategy for Fungal Conservation.

@catiacanteiro.bsky.social, SPUN Strategist, will co-lead a workshop on shaping the new strategy at the International Plant Conservation Conference today.

Selfie of Cátia Canteiro, SPUN Biodiversity Conservation Strategist, wearing a SPUN 'Protect the Underground' t-shirt, at the International Plant Conservation Conference. There is a screen showing pink flowers in the background.

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 12

Rachel Hoffmann @plantlifeuk.bsky.social highlighting how far we have come with now 9 fungal specialist groups in the IUCN SSC. So proud I have helped create many of these @protectspecies.bsky.social. @iucnfungi.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social

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Cátia Canteiro @catiacanteiro.bsky.social · Mar 12

Rachel Hoffman from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social highlighting how working with Greg Mueller @iucnfungi.bsky.social inspired her to care for fungi! @mobotgarden.bsky.social

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