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Pledge for Fungal Conservation

October 30 , 2024 18 hrs 0 min 59 0
  • The governments of Chile and the United Kingdom have prepared a ‘pledge for fungal conservation’.
  • Mushrooms, moulds, yeast, lichen and mildew may get their own taxonomical kingdom ‘Funga’ alongside animals and plants for their conservation.
  • The proposal was submitted to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) during the COP16 in Cali, Colombia.
  • It aims to advance their conservation and to adopt concrete measures that allow for maintaining their benefits to ecosystems and people.
  • It is estimated that only eight per cent of the total 2.2 and 3.8 million species of fungi are scientifically known.
  • About 2,000 new species are discovered annually across the world.

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