Exploring the Mycoverse: Fungi & Rethinking Conservation

What isExploring the Mycoverse?It's afungi-focusedcommunity education group exploring the many ways fungi can teach us about the inextricable interconnectedness of all life. The group regularly meets to discuss fungi media such as texts, books, articles,  films, and podcasts!

Aaron Tupac

Conservation of Abundance: How Fungi can Contribute to Rethinking Conservation – considering microbial labor and incorporating celebration.

Arlington Garden

<h3>Exploring the Mycoverse Presents...</h3><h3>Conservation of Abundance: How Fungi Can Contribute to Rethinking Conservation</h3>Conservation has been plagued by scarcity mindsets and challenges with focusing on individuals, such as species extinction. We will discuss how the exciting new research of fungi is leading us to understand life in different terms such as abundance, collectivity, and relational ecology. And how fungi are even helping cultivate celebration, curiosity, and joy into scientific disciplines due to their seemingly magical natures.We will also discuss some of the Mycoverse's founder Aaron Tupac's involvement in mycological conservation through being a fungal collector for the CA Fungal Diversity Survey Project and the chair of the North American Mycological Association's Conservation and Stewardship Committee.Before the discussion, we invite you to:<ul><li>Read <a href="https://journals.lww.com/coas/fulltext/2023/21020/conservation_of_abundance__how_fungi_can.2.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Conservation of Abundance: How Fungi Can Contribute to Rethinking Conservation (2023)</a> – 9 pages</li><li><a href="https://alisonpouliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/May_et_al_2018_Conservation_Mycology.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Recognition of the discipline of conservation mycology (2018)</a> – 4 pages</li><li><a href="https://fundis.org/images/PDF/Nat-Geo-2021__Fungi-key-to-survival.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NatGeo: Fungi are key to our Survival. Are we doing enough to protect them? (2021)</a> – 7 pages</li></ul> Join our mycelial network:<ul><li>Sign up for our <a href="https://aarontupac.substack.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Substack email newsletter.</a></li><li>Follow Exploring the Mycoverse on<a href="https://instagram.com/mycoverse_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Instagram</a>.</li></ul>

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