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Pledge for Fungal Conservation
October 30 , 2024
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- 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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