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The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative @thegsbi.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is in ONE DAY 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱

Abstracts are DUE AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️

Submit an abstract 👇

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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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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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IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social · May 28

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

YouTube video by FUNACTION

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Monni Böhm @monnikaboom.bsky.social · May 15

🚨🚨🚨 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

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IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee @iucnfungi.bsky.social · May 1

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 · Apr 30

🍄 🧪🌍 #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

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Oryx @oryxthejournal.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

A queen conch on the sea bed, with the text ‘New issue, species survival

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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · Apr 16

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

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

Cupreoboletus poikilochromus - Federico Calledda

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Mar 28

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.

Chlorogaster dipterocarpi - Thomas Læssøe

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

Gymnogaster boletoides  - Michelle Colpus

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social · Mar 28

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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IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee @iucnfungi.bsky.social · Mar 28

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IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨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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IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee @iucnfungi.bsky.social · Mar 28

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IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee @iucnfungi.bsky.social · Mar 28

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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IPBES @ipbes.net · Mar 6

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

www.theguardian.com

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Mar 6

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...

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IUCN SSC Fungal Conservation Committee @iucnfungi.bsky.social · Mar 6

🔥 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...

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Jan 24

📣 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

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Toby Spribille @spribille.bsky.social · Jan 9

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

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Jan 7

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!

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