To be updated. 

Webinars

Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2025 - 22 May 2025

Key Biodiversity Areas for Fungi - 4 October 2024

Red Listing for Fungi - 28 June 2024

Aquatic Fungi Diversity - 22 May 2024

Workshops

First in person workshop of the IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi SG - 13 August 2024 (Maastricht, Netherlands)

Conferences

Isabel Fernandes presented a poster during IMC12.

Isabel Fernandes, Allison Walker, Andreas Bruder, E.B. Gareth Jones, Hans-Peter Grossart, Huzefa A. Raja, Jennifer Anderson, Kevin Hyde, Teppo Rämä, Sally Fryar. Working towards aquatic fungi conservation: the new IUCN Species Survival Commission Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group. 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12), Maastricht, Netherlands.

Sally Fryar presented a talk during IMC12.

Sally Fryar. Conservation of marine and freshwater fungi. 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12), Maastricht, Netherlands.

Conservation news

IUCN Species Survival Commission Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group - 15 May 2024

Publications

Several members were co-authors of the paper  "Global consortium for the classification of fungi and fungus-like taxa" - December 2023.

Hyde et al. 2023. Global consortium for the classification of fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 14(1): 1960–2012. DOI: 10.5943/mycosphere/14/1/23.

TV shows

Isabel Fernandes talked about aquatic fungi, the IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi SG and the project FUNACTION in the RTP2 TV show Biosfera: Extremos Climáticos e Água Doce: Uma Luta Contra o Tempo, min 14:10 (in Portuguese) - 18 November 2023

Newspapers interviews

Andreas Bruder and Isabel Fernandes talked about aquatic fungi, the IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi SG and the project FUNACTION for the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Wasserpilze: die unsichtbaren Helfer in Seen und Flüssen (in German) - 21 November 2023

Blogs

There’s a Fungus Among Us… Even in Freshwater - Freshwater Fungi

This blog was a collaboration between experts at the Global Center for Species Survival, including Freshwater Conservation Coordinator Monni Böhm and Plants & Fungi Conservation Coordinator Cátia Canteiro, as well as Huzefa Raja and Isabel Fernandes from the IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group, and Ian Harrison and Topiltzin Contreras from the IUCN SSC Freshwater Conservation Committee, on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day - 2 February 2024

What’s in our Water? Freshwater Fungi

This blog was a collaboration between experts at the Global Center for Species Survival, including Freshwater Conservation Coordinator Dr. Monni Böhm and Global Center intern Michael Hannon, and featured IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi SG member Huzefa Raja and his project of freshwater fungi discovery in Indianapolis and beyond! - 16 August 2024

Newsletters

Aquatic Fungi: A New Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission

Huzeja Raja and other members of the IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi SG contributed with a Fungal Conservation News Update for Inoculum, the newsletter of the Mycological Society of America  - June 2024

The IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi SG is mentioned in the ParAqua newsletter #12, about the organisation of the webinar "Aquatic Fungi Diversity", on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May) - July 2024