Are you fascinated by Australia’s biodiversity, it’s plants, fungi and creatures great and small? Did you know that thousands of new species are discovered and described by Australia’s taxonomists every year? Or that an estimated 70% of Australia’s spe...

Having a comprehensive understanding of fungi – their distribution, populations and reproduction – will be critical to understanding the threats to their conservation. But we’ve got a long way to go, says one expert (Alison Pouliot). A great article by A...

Australia is a land of extremes, of curious organisms with quirky adaptations. Even our ghosts are more perplexing than your regular spook, and you don’t need a Geiger counter or infrared camera to track them down. Ghosts feature fantastically in folklore ac...

QMS is organising another trip to Far North Queensland with workshops and forays during the Wet Season (i.e. Fungi Season!) in March 2019. Following their very successful project in 2018, they have produced a Pocket Field Guide specifically for the Tropical Mo...

The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne has an event on 12 March about which they say: Mushrooms, it seems, have some uncanny properties. Fungi are more closely related to humans than plants, and if we can work with our fungal cousins, we might find a way to reduce wa...