Fungi are the great interconnectors of the wild, but they are often missing from discussions and efforts to protect nature and rewild the world. Trees can’t grow in soil without fungi. Penicillin came from fungi. Fungi turn rotting trees into nutrients. Animals, from birds to worms, eat fungi. And fungi help keep carbon in the ground. We should be talking about funga all the time!

Last week, @rewild and @iucnssc became the first global conservation organizations to recognize fungi as one of the three kingdoms of life critical to protecting and restoring Earth. They joined the 3F initiative led by @fungifoundation and pledged to be mycologically inclusive and use mycologically inclusive language. We can’t rewild the world without fungi.

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