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F. JAVIER BALDA JAUREGUIHello, everyone.An idea for this pyreno, I found u
Please see attached a letter encouraging mycologists and lichenologists to nominate of fungi, including lichens, for an IUCN Fungal Red List Initiative. The aim is to propose and contribute more fungal species to the IUCN Red List.
Please disseminate to to any websites, newsletters, Fungi groups, institutions, colleagues etc. to get some more interest in this great endeavour!
Thank you,
Jo Taylor (RBGE)
p.s. if you are not already aware of it please see the International Society for Fungal Conservation website at http://www.fungal-conservation.org/ and have a look at the society's journal 'Fungal Conservation'.
Rarity is a subjective data (the probability for a fungi to be observed by someone), and is often dependant on the observer himself - many rare species are only difficult to observe, or to identify, or fruit sporadically, or with a sspecific ecology, but what is threatened in such case is competent mycologists, rather than fungi themselves. Red-listed species must be reasonably identificable by a non-specialized mycologist, because they need to be monitorable.
I think such a hurry call-to-proposals will lack methodological support, and therefore final credibility. But the question deserves discussion !
Best regards, Pierre-Arthur
As I pointed out in my letter, and you have outlined in you response, there are issues with the assessment of fungi, but equally there are also good candidates for assessment and it is these that the initiative aims to target.
All the best,
Jo
thanks for your statement that I fully support. The involvement of amateur mycologists is again and again requested, without any hope of financial compensation. In absence of qualified mycologists, any list, red or not is just paperwork.
Dear Joanne,
As suggested by PAM, please firtst take care of editing a red list of competent mycologists.
Good luck,
Jacques