This web page provides information about resources for fungal conservation. If you have information you would like posted here, please send it to the EMAWebmaster. For each item listed, a hyperlink is provided to its internet site or, where this is not possible, a contact name and address or some other identifying information. Additional explanatory information may then follow. Where the name of the item is not in English, a translation may be provided in italics in square brackets after that information, followed where appropriate by the principal language of the item and, in alphabetical order, other languages used.
Ascomycete Conservation, a prototype specialist group promoting conservation of ascomycetes [English]
IUCN SSC Fungi Specialist Group Website [English]
IUCN Lichen Specialist Group [no website]. Contact: Dr Christoph Scheidegger, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow & Landscape Research, Zürcherstrasse 111, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland; tel. 41/1/739-2439; fax 41/1/739-2215; e-mail christoph.scheidegger@wsl.ch
IUCN 2003 Red List of Threatened Species, the first two fungi, both lichen-forming, to make it to the IUCN list [English]
Literature on Fungal Conservation [English]
Mildew, Mould & Myxomycete Conservation, a prototype specialist group promoting conservation of chromistans, chytrids, myxomycetes and zygomycetes [English]
Red Lists for Microfungi, part of the IUCN Sampled Red List Index Project [English]
Rust & Smut Conservation, a prototype specialist group promoting conservation of rusts and smuts [English]