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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/african-scientists-fungal-conservation-movement-aoe. The #biosphere is fully integrated & inter-dependent. Take out one part of an #ecosystem & the rest of it collapses - & the same is true of the biosphere as a whole. If all #fungi were to become #extinct, the #extinction of other #eukaryotic life-forms, including #humans, would follow, & very rapidly.

African scientists hail mushrooming global interest in conserving fungi

Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, mycologists seek greater recognition of the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna

The Guardian