Fungi is too 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. Animals, from birds to worms, eat fungi. And fungi help keep carbon in the ground.
Re:wild and IUCN Species Survival Commission recently became the first global conservation organizations to recognize fungi as one of three kingdoms of life critical to protecting and restoring Earth. They joined the 3F initiative led by Fungi Foundation. They pledged to be mycologically inclusive and use mycologically inclusive language, because we can’t rewild the world without fungi.