Citizens for Fungi Diversity - Project introduction on SEEN 2024

We are in the sixth mass extinction, where animal and plant species are going extinct at an alarming
rate. Certainly, fungi are no exception, but shockingly little knowledge is available. In the IUCN Red
list, there are two orders of magnitude less fungi than animals or plants. The conservation status is
not evaluated, and the extinction risk of the species of the second-largest kingdom of life is unknown.
According to IUCN, it is an under-researched and under-financed field. As a research officer of
a conservation NGO, I would like to present a running project that aims to build infrastructure
supporting citizen science activity of fungi diversity assessment.
Funding: Agrárminisztérium PTKF/252/2023